From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs doc changes Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:58:29 +0200 Message-ID: <85y7y0bmbe.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nejzv9b98.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n7j5l5xt6.fsf_-_@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <85fyk9fnxv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4nacah4f88.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <85bquxfn3j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20060419183441.GA3137@gothmog.pc> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145527145 23920 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2006 09:59:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, tzz@lifelogs.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 20 11:59:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWVwA-0003bD-EJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:58:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWVwA-0000D3-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWVvv-0000CC-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWVvu-0000Bx-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWVvu-0000Bu-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWVxD-0003dg-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FWVvt-000247-EZ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E77F61C408B9; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:58:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:50:33 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53132 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Stefan Monnier >> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:44:43 -0400 >> Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Let me also remind people that diff-mode.el provides diff-context->unified >> and diff-unified->context commands. > > ``Remind us''? You mean, we were supposed to know that somehow? > > The manual says almost nothing about diff-mode, which IMHO is a shame, > since it's a great time savior. For example, yesterday I found out > (by sheer luck, simply because I typed a command in the wrong buffer) > that "C-x 4 a" does TRT in the diffs buffer, i.e. looks up the hunk's > function in the original file and generates a correct ChangeLog > entry. So do C-x v v and other version control commands. I use them quite more often from the diff buffer than elsewhere. > I think at least emacs-xtra.texi should include some decent > documentation for a feature which any serious programmer should be > using every day. Wouldn't that be more important to mention in the version control documentation? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum