Re: [Fwd: Bug#212038: rcs: ci: should be able to edit the log message]

[Aaron S. Hawley]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:

> Aaron: Unfortunately, the above proposal does not meet my needs.

Fortunately, GNU Emacs (which Jeff mentions below) has vc-mode.

GNU Emacs' vc-mode is obviously not the panacea of Jeff's wishlist
request, but probably deserves mentioning here.

/a

>     o I already have stdin re-directed (</dev/tty) in order to
>     reply to ci's questions (eg, "delete writeable file?", etc).
>
>     o I want to invoke the editor only when I feel the need to do
>     so, not for every checkin.  Note that it can be expensive to
>     invoke some editors, eg, emacs.
>
>     o When multiple files are checked in using a single command
>     line invocation of ci, I need to be able to enter possibly
>     different log messages for each file being checked in, again,
>     interactively, in response to ci's questions.  This situation
>     is actually a recursive invocation of the above two reasons.
>
> Thanks,