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Re: vc-dir default directory: repository root?
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: vc-dir default directory: repository root? |
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Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:57:57 -0800 |
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On 01/19/2015 06:55 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 01/19/2015 04:16 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> There always are. We don't have to (and can't) accommodate everyone
>> (not even me).
>
> Someone should feel free to go ahead with that patch
Okay.
> but here's another
> possible avenue for improvement: don't ask for the directory when
> there's an existing vc-dir buffer, and it's for a parent of/or the
> current directory.
>
> Just display it, maybe not even refresh until the user asks. That will
> cut some of the prompts overhead as well.
The ergonomics of sometimes prompting and sometimes not strike me as
potentially troublesome. Won't that lead to stray RETs in the vc-dir buffer?
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Re: vc-dir default directory: repository root?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/01/18