From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-diff in vc-dir Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18907.4035.387954.83641@totara.tehura.co.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239138895 22155 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2009 21:14:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 07 23:16:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LrIeS-0007b1-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:16:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrId4-0004FY-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrIcz-0004FH-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrIcu-0004EX-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33652 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrIcu-0004EQ-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36108) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LrIct-0007pi-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LrIct-0006Fa-50; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:14:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <18907.4035.387954.83641@totara.tehura.co.nz> (nickrob@snap.net.nz) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:110126 Archived-At: In dired (Emacs 22.1) you could use vc-diff (v =) on a single file when other files were marked by placing the cursor over it. In vc-dir you always get a diff of the marked files. Perhaps this is useful also, but quite often I start to mark files and then want to see what changes I have in other edited files. I can no longer do that without visiting the file in a buffer first. Is the operation of diff multiple files useful enough to make this change a desirable one?