Hi. When an empty .cvsrc is found all the pcl-cvs standard args are set to empty. I don't consider this the right behaviour. I think it should be as follows: 1) if there are arguments found .cvsrc use those 1a) special case: If a command is found in .cvsrc with no arguments then use no arguments for that command 2) for those commands that is *not* configured in .cvsrc use pcl-cvs defaults. to provoke the situation create an empty .cvsrc and compare behaviour of (say diff) to the situation where no .cvsrc is found at all. I have made a patch to fix this, but it still need some work, since re-reading of .cvsrc will not reset the pcl-<command>-flags to the original defaults initialised with `(cvs-flags-define cvs-<command>-flags (cvs-defaults LIST))' Jarl Index: pcl-cvs.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/pcl-cvs/pcl-cvs.el,v retrieving revision 2.39 diff -u -r2.39 pcl-cvs.el --- pcl-cvs.el 2001/12/21 06:25:16 2.39 +++ pcl-cvs.el 2002/01/18 09:48:40 ＠＠ -118,10 +118,18 ＠＠ (dolist (cmd '("cvs" "checkout" "status" "log" "diff" "tag" "add" "commit" "remove" "update")) (let* ((sym (intern (concat "cvs-" cmd "-flags"))) - (val (when (string-match (concat "^" cmd "\\s-\\(.*\\)$") cvsrc) - (cvs-string->strings (match-string 1 cvsrc))))) - (cvs-flags-set sym 0 val))) - ;; ensure that cvs doesn't have -q or -Q + (params (when (string-match (concat "^" cmd "\\(\\s-+\\(.*\\)\\)?$") cvsrc) + (cvs-string->strings (or (match-string 2 cvsrc) "")) + ))) + (if params + (cvs-flags-set sym 0 (if (equal params '("")) nil params )) + ;;FIXME: Otherwise set the flags to the original pcl-cvs + ;;default params here in the else part. /jarl + ) + )) + ;; Ensure that cvs doesn't have -q or -Q and ensure to have the -f + ;; FIXME: several invokes of `cvs-reread-cvsrc' will have many + ;; "-f" options, this doesn't hurt but it's not beautiful. /jarl (cvs-flags-set 'cvs-cvs-flags 0 (cons "-f" (cdr (cvs-partition