From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@golux.thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection-set editing without VC-dired
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878x3b3cy2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bq876aku.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:12:49 +0900")
"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?
-Miles
--
The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain,
unclad, and incomplete. [Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-31 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 14:36 Selection-set editing without VC-dired Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 15:03 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-30 15:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-30 23:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-31 0:49 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-12-31 1:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-30 14:28 Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 14:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-02 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 4:55 ` Bob Rogers
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-05 5:55 ` Richard Stallman
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