From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-diff in vc-dir Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:31:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18907.4035.387954.83641@totara.tehura.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239111145 15372 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2009 13:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:32:25 +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 15:33:43 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 1LrBQr-00021z-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:33:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrBPS-0007DK-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:32:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrBP6-00072x-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrBP0-0006za-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60964 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrBP0-0006zU-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:7948 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LrBOz-0003vx-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:31:46 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUEAK7y2klMCqib/2dsb2JhbACBUs0Hg30GhQ4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.39,337,1235970000"; d="scan'208";a="36702061" Original-Received: from 76-10-168-155.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.168.155]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 07 Apr 2009 09:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D990770A2F; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:31:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <18907.4035.387954.83641@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:33:07 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:110116 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. 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