GNU bug report logs - #4243
Emacs 23 ido-mode vc-hg bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tracy Reed <treed <at> copilotco.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:10:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 4243 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Tracy Reed <treed <at> ultraviolet.org>
Cc: 4243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4243: Emacs 23 ido-mode vc-hg bug
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:44 -0700 (PDT)

Tracy Reed <treed <at> ultraviolet.org> writes:

  > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:12:06AM -0700, Dan Nicolaescu spake thusly:
  > > It looks like a bug in your hg version...
  > 
  > Ah-hah...I have tracked it down to this in my .hgrc file:
  > 
  > [defaults]
  > status = -q
  > I use hg mostly for sysadmin stuff and often have lots of files in a
  > directory that aren't checked in. But I use hg status often to see
  > what has been modified and do not want to see all the noise by the
  > files that are not checked in. So I use this default. Apparently it
  > confuses vc-hg. Not sure if emacs could handle this better somehow but
  > it isn't a big deal. 

Is there a command line flag to disable user's .hgrc? (like emacs has -q) 
If yes, the we can just pass that flag to "hg status", that way we
always get consistent results.
If not, not sure what we can do...
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