From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to apply (multi file) patches conveniently Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:42:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83efz968cw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87efzb5xgl.fsf@drachen> <83fujr7216.fsf@gnu.org> <871sv9u79z.fsf@drachen> <83fujp6a6b.fsf@gnu.org> <874m05ycmx.fsf@drachen> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486500191 25073 195.159.176.226 (7 Feb 2017 20:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 20:43:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 07 21:43:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cbCbR-0006Gs-Bg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:43:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbCbW-000749-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbCaq-0006qH-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbCan-00008h-F9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:42:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbCan-00008L-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2056 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cbCak-0002C6-BQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:42:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <874m05ycmx.fsf@drachen> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:22:30 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112278 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:22:30 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > It depends on what is at the beginning of the buffer, and what is > > after the patch itself. With some text there, Patch could become > > utterly confused. It does know about a typical beginning of an email > > message, but buffer contents could be anything... > > > > So I really recommend to mark the patch. > > Ok, but can in real-life situations happen things worse then "patch" > saying it could not apply the patch? Did it ever happen to you that it > applied something wrong? No, that is unlikely (and never happened to me). But I thought the failure to apply was the original motivation for the question, no? > FWIW, I wrote this: > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (defun my-gnus-patch-from-article () > (interactive) > (with-current-buffer gnus-article-buffer > (shell-command-on-region > (if (use-region-p) (region-beginning) (point-min)) > (if (use-region-p) (region-end) (point-max)) > (format "patch -d '%s' -p1" ^^^^ Never quote command arguments by hand, always use shell-quote-argument.