From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#65380: [PATCH] Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:06:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83lee7z3xs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wmxrwe6h.fsf@posteo.net> <83o7j3z4wm.fsf@gnu.org> <87pm3jwboc.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35810"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 65380@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 19 13:07:16 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJnX-00099z-Ro for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:07:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJnK-0005q4-P9; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJnJ-0005pk-Bj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJnJ-0003Yu-3s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJnJ-0000sK-IL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:07:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:07:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 65380 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 65380-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B65380.16924432163353 (code B ref 65380); Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 65380) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Aug 2023 11:06:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49591 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJnD-0000s1-Vi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53618) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJn8-0000ri-8c for 65380@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXJn1-0003YI-Fn; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:06:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=0oYO6idLpFfk3SHFcuaZpVt/CNU8iTqi0q2pNfpqt1g=; b=TDACzrSlmfrr kxYP6PfL1y16vuokL3c7s8noY1D6qN6mz+DRErMZVrfqLes+gkMzJn5XaNqw/1U24ec452yMeEG5X +79/ejJzydZDEIr5DOUReGJW6cSWDYDw5uUrJqe1LHQ2OWrjgOEcPba5UE9DBSB/+p0OXrTp9j5qC 0GOANqtrTFrSn7RTEs3cS1bLiEAAJfchS+QQGSoXtOS0pLReYxEot/wFWfNKF0BqVD9Zt4Lv5/iyC Xiu3eHyBTtgSclJKrOabpQ0pXNLAc1Vgmy/8PhBFiOFERgAalAfqEQoJQc4Pu4KaEhU/56aC4Ylb8 V+k/CzmMW8VjWsmXLMWz+w==; In-Reply-To: <87pm3jwboc.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:48:03 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:267850 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: 65380@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:48:03 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Please tell more about the use cases where this would be useful. I > > couldn't understand that from the patch itself. > > A simple example is where someone sends me a patch with a Elisp function > I'd like to evaluate. If I can't or don't want to apply the patch right > now, I can use `diff-kill-ring-save' to copy the function without the > leading "+" into my scratch buffer and evaluate it there. But diffs don't necessarily show the entire body/ies of function(s), they show just part of them. So this seems to be useful only in a very small subset of cases?