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.