Building packages with 21.5b29?

[Raymond Toy]

On 2/14/11 2:04 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Raymond Toy wrote:
> 
> I don't know anything about pcl-cvs (I use vc instead).  Mercurial.el
> defines some keybindings so that it superficially works like vc (e.g.,
> "C-x v =" for diffs, "C-x v l" for file history).

With pcl-cvs, M-x cvs-update brings up a buffer, kind of like what hg
status would produce.  This buffer allows you to do some simple
operations on the files that are listed.  "=" produces a diff of the
file.  "c" asks for a commit message and commits the changes.  And so
on.  I was kind of expecting the same from hg-status.  I think pcl-cvs
is completely integrated with vc, so C-x v = uses cvs diff.

M-x git-status (from git.el) does something like this, so driving git
this way is very natural to me.
> 
>> I guess I basically don't know how to drive it, and there's not
>> much documentation in mercurial.el about how to use it.  Or maybe the
>> version I have is too old.  There's a copyright from 2006.
> 
> I don't know if there's a newer version.
> http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsMercurial.html has an
> intro to mercurial.el that looks like it might be helpful for you.

Yes, this is helpful.  Thanks for the tip.

It would be nice if hg-status worked as I expected it to work.  The code
looks like it checks to see if there's an .hg directory, and if there's
not, it supposed to ask you for a path.  Instead it signals an error.
Haven't figured out what's causing that.

Ray