Re: vc-magit mode (was: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Cc: thibaut.verron@gmail.com, eric@ericabrahamsen.net,
>       spwhitton@spwhitton.name, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:47:05 -0500
> 
>    > Here is an idea, a new backend -- vc-magit.  This calls the right
>    > Magit functions.  The user can then set the prefered backends using
>    > vc-handled-backends.
> 
>    Dmitry will tell for sure, but I think adapting Magit to the VC
>    architecture won't be easy, since Magit is not exactly a backend like
>    the other ones.  The VC framework might be a kind of Procrustean bed
>    for Magit.
> 
> Even if the architecture makes it complciated to do it using a vc
> backend, magit could still take over the C-x v binding for its own
> purpose with similar semantics to what is in vc-mode.

I said nothing about keybindings, only about your suggestion to make
Magit another VC backend.