Re: [Monotone-devel] A patch for monotone.el

[Zack Weinberg]

On 1/18/07, Steven E. Harris <address@hidden> wrote:
> As presented here, the menu won't appear in the proper buffers, the
> problem being that there's no "monotone-mode" being entered and hence
> no way to decide when a given buffer should present the
> monotone-specific menu. I've seen both the CVS and ClearCase
> integration packages figure this out by defining a hook in
> find-file-hooks that determines whether the current buffer is looking
> at something within a repository. It makes opening such buffers
> slightly slower, as there's usually a call to an external program, or
> maybe just a search up the directory tree.

I would really like to see this done, as then monotone.el would
interoperate better with other VC-integration packages.  One does
occasionally need to edit files in some other, inferior VC system,
after all. :)

I guess the thing to do is scan up the directory hierarchy for a _MTN
directory...

zw