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bug#36911: 26.1; Impossible to customise vc-ignore-dir-regexp
From: |
Juliusz Chroboczek |
Subject: |
bug#36911: 26.1; Impossible to customise vc-ignore-dir-regexp |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:08:43 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Wanderlust/2.15.9 |
Hi Lars,
>>> vc-ignore-dir-regexp is a variable defined in ‘vc-hooks.el’.
>>> Its value is
>>> "\\`\\(?:[\\/][\\/][^\\/]+[\\/]\\|/\\(?:net\\|afs\\|\\.\\.\\.\\)/\\)\\'"
>> It is essentially impossible for a normal user to customise this variable
>> without disabling the existing functionality. So for now, it's
>>
>> (setq vc-handled-backends nil)
> I'm not sure why it's impossible to customise that variable? You can
> just set it to "/my/ignored/directory" and that should work.
> (You'd lose the original value, which is about AFS and SMB mounts, which
> may be a sensible default, but which isn't relevant to most people
> working in GNU/Linux.)
How am I supposed to know that? I'm sure I'm not the only person afraid
to touch it.
-- Juliuszp