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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-diff in vc-dir
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:31:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdpgzjcz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18907.4035.387954.83641@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:33:07 +1200")

> 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.

Indeed, that lead PCL-CVS developpers to treat diff specially.
See cvs-diff-ignore-marks (historical variable, then generalized to
cvs-invert-ignore-marks).
Thewre's also cvs-mode-toggle-marks which causes the next command to
ignore marks.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-07  8:33 vc-diff in vc-dir Nick Roberts
2009-04-07 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-04-07 21:14 ` Richard M Stallman

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