The RCS status is now found by reading the master file directly, instead of using rlog. The properties retrieved from the master file are kept separately. The two main properties, `vc-workfile-version' and `vc-locking-user', are inferred from those master file properties if the information cannot be found elsehow. All properties are consistently cached now. (vc-master-info, vc-log-info, vc-fetch-properties): functions removed. Their job is now done by `vc-fetch-master-properties' and `vc-insert-file'. (vc-fetch-master-properties): new function, replaces vc-fetch-properties. Retrieves all the properties that can be found in the master file, for all three backends (calls `cvs status' in the CVS case). (vc-insert-file): new function. Inserts an arbitrary file into the current buffer, optionally chunkwise, until a certain regexp shows up. (vc-parse-locks): new function. Translates SCCS or RCS lock lists, as found in the master files, into lisp lists. Sets the new property `vc-master-locks'. (vc-locked-version): property removed. Was unnecessary, and only referenced in vc-hooks.el. (vc-head-version, vc-default-branch, vc-master-locks): new properties. (vc-top-version): new name for the old property `vc-branch-version'. ("top-version" is better because it might also be the RCS "head" if there is no default branch.) (vc-master-locking-user): replaces `vc-true-locking-user'. Scans the new `vc-master-locks' property, yielding the master file's idea of who is locking the current workfile version. (vc-locking-user): slightly changed to use the new properties. Changed the actual property value for an unlocked file to 'none. This is to distinguish it from an unknown locking state, which is represented by nil. The function vc-locking-user returns nil if the property is 'none, to make it compatible with the rest of VC. (vc-consult-rcs-headers, vc-master-locking-user): adpated to the new 'none-value of vc-locking-user. (vc-consult-rcs-headers): fixed bug that prevented (not vc-consult-headers) from working (vc-file-not-found-hook): set the default-directory of the new buffer before check-out. (Otherwise, setting vc-keep-workfiles to nil doesn't work.) (vc-occurences, vc-branch-p): functions removed (no longer needed) Reordered some defuns so they are grouped in a logical way.