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Re: SVN update in GNU Emacs 22.1.50


From: Bill Wohler
Subject: Re: SVN update in GNU Emacs 22.1.50
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:29:21 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> For the SVN method vc-retrieve-snapshot brings a buffer *vc* with
> this contents:
>
>       svn: '' does not appear to be a URL
>
> (Isn't this bad English? Shouldn't it be 'an URL'?) 

Since acronyms are pronounced letter by letter, the adjective matches
the spelling of the *sound* of the leading letter, in this case, "U"
is pronounced "YOU" which takes the "a". As another example, an
acronym that starts with M takes an "an" as the M is pronounced "EM".
Kompliziert vielleicht, aber nicht so als Deutsche Adjektiven ;-).

> So there is no substitute for pcvs.el and psvn.el now – why is the
> family of vc-*.el files then autoloaded?

As Stefan said, psvn and pcvs are orthogonal (meaning, they serve a
different purpose) to vc. Think of psvn and pcvs former like dired and
vc like the file operations (such as `C-x C-f' and `C-s').

Tchüß!

-- 
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD





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