Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 46, Issue 169

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Subject: Selection-set editing without VC-dired
> To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@golux.thyrsus.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Message-ID: <87bq876aku.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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> Eric S. Raymond writes:
> 
>  > So, I'm not outright rejecting the idea of a non-VC-Dired UI for
>  > specifying selection sets. But I think it would be better for
>  > now if I continued to focus on making VC-Dired so fast that
>  > you won't really want or need an alternate set-editing method.  
> 
> For subfile (hunk-level) selection, you definitely will.  This is one
> of the features that makes Darcs fanatics.

Granted. But I'm not reay to design that UI yet.  I have lot of other
things that need doing on the mode first.

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> >  > So, I'm not outright rejecting the idea of a non-VC-Dired UI for
> >  > specifying selection sets. But I think it would be better for
> >  > now if I continued to focus on making VC-Dired so fast that
> >  > you won't really want or need an alternate set-editing method.  
> >
> > For subfile (hunk-level) selection, you definitely will.  This is one
> > of the features that makes Darcs fanatics.
> 
> Git can also do this sort of thing (I don't use it often, but it can be
> reallly nice when you need it!), and using the "index" for commit allows
> for even more possibilities.
> 
> However, are there enough common details to make a common vc interface
> to such details practical?

I don't know yet.  It's on my to-do list to find out.
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