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From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on support for vc-diff unsaved buffer contents?
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:05:07 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7f7029c-e159-4f5b-b364-d161db3e6086@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878qtbogqi.fsf@mail.linkov.net>



On 24-11-22 6:44 PM, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> Hi, recently I've run into a situation where it's necessary to calculate
>> modified line ranges without first saving the buffer (where "modified" is
>> determined by a version control diff).
>>
>> I'm curious if this is something that might be supported - or, is already
>> supported (although I'm fairly sure it's not).
> 
> 'diff-no-select' as well as 'multi-file-diff-no-select' accept
> unsaved buffers as their arguments.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The part I'm not sure about regarding `diff-no-select' & 
`diff-buffer-with-file' is how they could work with version-control 
(vc-diff or a related functions).

As far as I can see the diff needs to be generated by version-control 
(git/hg/svn etc) instead of a file - since the "original" file 
necessarily exist as a file on disk.





      reply	other threads:[~2024-11-22  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-21 22:02 Thoughts on support for vc-diff unsaved buffer contents? Campbell Barton
2024-11-22  0:04 ` James Thomas
2024-11-22  6:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-22  7:44 ` Juri Linkov
2024-11-22  9:05   ` Campbell Barton [this message]

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