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From: Christian Tietze <me@christiantietze.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: , 49208@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49208: 28.0.50; project-find-regexp's xref-mode result buffer is not editable
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:40:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1tuln9hks.fsf@christiantietze.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgvffbg8.fsf@gnus.org>

Sorry, I thought these were staples of the Emacs landscape with
`wdired' being the ancestor of them all. You know that one? If no,
check it out for in-place file renaming in dired listings, including
rectangle-mode (or multiple cursors, if one prefers) changes.

Not sure how to best implement this, and larger elisp code bases
are hard to follow for me still; it sounds like a problem I'd tackle
by storing the original, making an editable copy, then diffing the
buffers on commit ([C-c C-c]) and apply the diffs per reference. In
dired, apply line changes as renames; in wgrep, apply per-file diffs.
Xref has file references for each item already, so I can imagine
applying the changes might not be that difficult, since [r] offers
replacement among all findings in a similar way, but only
mass-replacements, not amendmends and free-form editing.

This is my first contribution to the mailing list -- should I
rephrase/add anything to my original email to clarify, or is there
anything else I can do to help with filing this?

I guess a better title would be:

"Make project-find-refexp's xref-mode result buffer editable" instead
of the complaint-like way I phrased it to make it sound like a 'bug'.

Happy to follow along and help where I can!

-- Christian





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-24 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-24 13:49 bug#49208: 28.0.50; project-find-regexp's xref-mode result buffer is not editable Christian Tietze
2021-06-24 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-24 16:29   ` Robert Pluim
2021-06-24 16:56     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-24 19:40       ` Christian Tietze [this message]
2021-06-24 20:52         ` Juri Linkov

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