Re: 23.0.60; new vc-status interface: no more multi-file commits?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Tim Van Holder" <address@hidden> writes:

  > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
  > > "Tim Van Holder" <address@hidden> writes:
  > >   > On top of that, the retrieving of the status info uses a
  > >   > background process; in the case of the tree I was using (a gcc
  > >   > checkout), that process is quite slow, and there did not seem to be an
  > >   > obvious way to cancel it. C-g did nothing (since it's a background
  > >   > process), and when it finished after I had killed the vc-status buffer
  > >   > I received a 'selecting deleted buffer' error.
  > >
  > >  C-c C-c kills the update process (second to last menu entry).
  > 
  > I didn't notice that.
  > Would be nice if the background task could check that its buffer was
  > still alive when updating it, so that it would silently abort if the
  > (overly impatient) user killed it (or, alternatively, kill the process
  > if the buffer is killed).

Thanks, that sound like a good idea.  Now the update process is killed
when the VC status buffer is killed.