GNU bug report logs - #38992
27.0.60; when enabled, fido-mode seems to break vc-git-grep

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: waah <at> yellowfrog.io

Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 39407

Found in versions 27.0.60, 28.0.50

Done: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, waah <at> yellowfrog.io
Subject: bug#38992: 27.0.60; when enabled, fido-mode seems to break vc-git-grep
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:14:54 +0200

On 05.03.2020 13:51, João Távora wrote:
> Sure, but before that happens, users get annoyed :-) so let's provide
> an "out" for them.

And when they use that "out", and the program behaves randomly, they'll 
get annoyed, file confusing bug reports, etc. Why would we want that?

Do you have a specific scenario in mind where it would help?

> OK, at this point I think you should push this to Emacs 27, and I'll 
> work with
> it for a while and flag if I see some bad stuff.  We mostly need testing 
> for this
> new mode (I wonder how many people are testing it, besides the original
> poster).

I've seen it mentioned on Reddit, and mentioned it myself on at least 
one occasion. So there definitely are people using it.
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