From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: *vc-diff* keeps undo information Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:39:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17535.23719.576201.366323@rgrjr.dyndns.org> <87bqtbj4b9.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149288149 8671 80.91.229.2 (2 Jun 2006 22:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 00:42:26 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 1FmILG-0002iX-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:42:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmILF-0006Aj-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FmIJD-0005Jq-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FmIJD-0005JU-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmIJC-0005JJ-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FmIPl-0005nr-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FmIJB-00048E-Hs; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:39:57 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87bqtbj4b9.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:27:06 +0300) 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:55644 Archived-At: > Furthermore, it doesn't allow users to undo manual edits made > afterwards, e.g. splitting hunks, which is surely unacceptable. I agree, this is unacceptable. Editing the diff output is useful for e.g. preparing the patches for sending by mail after manual editing, etc. That is a good point. So the thing to do is turn off undo temporarily while the diff is being received, then turn it on with an empty undo list.