Emacs and VC AKA Version Control and an excessive list of handled backends

• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customizing-VC.html

I am working for a customer

• on WinXP
• with GNU Emacs 24.2.1
• through Tramp
• resp. putty plink (“pscp”)
• on AIX files.

They are using CVS on AIX, but as I am actually the only Emacs user there, I don’t really bother going through the set-up for using Emacs with CVS on WinXP.

Recently I looked into *tramp/pscp HOSTNAME*, and I decided I would be able cutting down on my waiting time, if I drastically reduced the list of files and directories being checked through VC in that environment.

I really don’t mind the VC overhead on OS X or (SUSE) Linux, but in that difficult environment I rather want to proceed as described.

I found vc-handled-backends and customised it the Emacs way, and I was done.