Re: Index header in diff-mode

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

>>>> After saving them to files and visiting in diff-mode, sometimes I type
>>>> `C-c C-c' or `RET' on such index headers with the intention to visit the
>>>> first hunk.  But instead, it visits the last hunk of the previous file
>>>> in the same multi-file diff.  Wouldn't it be better to handle the index
>>>> header as part of the file header?
>>>
>>> I think you're right.  Feel free to make this change,
>
>> I tried to add an optional Index regexp to diff-file-header-re:
>
> I think it's the wrong way to go.  You should try and fix
> diff-goto-source more specifically.

Yes, diff-goto-source should be fixed too, because currently it
doesn't work even on normal diff file headers.  But I thought also
that diff-file-next and diff-file-prev should stop at the index header
because some other commands like diff-file-kill already take into
account the index header.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/