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I am trying out project based search via project-find-regexp, but I get the error:
vc-call-backend: VC method not implemented for backend: find-ignore-file, CVS
How can I fix this? I assume this is a CVS specific problem. Is there way to make CVS working with the project system? (Or just ignoring the CVS aspect when doing the project search?)
For a quick workaround, you can try adding this definition to your init script:
(defun vc-cvs-find-ignore-file (file)
(expand-file-name ".cvsignore" (file-name-directory file)))
bug-gnu-emacs list.
project(and thusvc) think your project is using CVS as its version control. Check the docs for each to see how to explicitly set the version control system for your project. Or you can customizevc-enabled-backends, to set which backendsvcwill use. If you're just interested in searching, maybe Emacs integration for one of the "fast search tools" (ack, ag, ripgrep, etc.) would be more suited to your needs.vc, but not for ignoring files apparently. In my copy ofvcthe backend specific functions are only implemented for git, bzr, hg, and mtn. This might be helpful though github.com/wolfmanx/vc-ignsvn propget svn:ignore?cvsignorewhere you list the file patterns that you want CVS to ignore. See the documentation online (gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/cvs/html_node/…).