From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 65380@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65380: [PATCH] Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:48:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm3jwboc.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o7j3z4wm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:46:01 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:53:58 +0000
>>
>> This command solves a long-standing annoyance I have had when working
>> with diffs. To my knowledge there is no existing way to achieve this
>> (rectangular selection might be possible, but that behaves differently
>> when the text is yanked). The binding "w" seems intuitive when
>> contrasted with "M-w", but might be confused with "W" (widen). Not sure
>> if that is an issue or not.
>
> 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.
> Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-19 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-19 9:53 bug#65380: [PATCH] Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 10:00 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 0:59 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20 7:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-19 10:48 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-08-19 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-19 15:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-19 19:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 21:01 ` Sean Whitton
2023-08-19 22:49 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20 0:41 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20 16:30 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-20 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20 18:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-22 11:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-22 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20 19:47 ` Jim Porter
2023-08-20 20:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20 20:45 ` Jim Porter
2023-08-20 21:29 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20 22:21 ` Jim Porter
2023-08-20 22:31 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20 23:39 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-21 0:34 ` Jim Porter
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