Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Emilio Lopes]

2014-09-19 2:03 GMT+02:00 Rasmus <address@hidden>:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> What is magit?
> […]
> It has so very nice features but it very git-centric.  For instance in
> the diff-view you can stash (precommit) only a subset of changed
> lines, effectively splitting your uncommited work into several patches
> easily.

An a side remark: I've tried magit sometime ago found it sluggish.

These days I'm pretty satisfied with the integration provided by `vc'
and git itself.
It's nice to read git's docs in `woman' when you write `git commit --help'.

For editing diffs, just use `git add -e' and you can use the excellent
(and underused) `diff-mode' to manipulate the patch your heart's
content.  Alternatively one can edit the output from `vc-diff' directly
and use `commit-patch'
(http://porkrind.org/missives/commit-patch-managing-your-mess) to
commit it out of the Emacs buffer.  This approach also works for svn,
bzr etc. btw.

Here is a trivial integration of `git grep':

    (defun git-grep (command-args)
      "Use the `grep' machinery to run `git grep'."
      (interactive
       (let ((sap (thing-at-point 'symbol))
             (grep-command "git grep -n "))
         (list (read-shell-command "Run git grep (like this): "
                                   (if sap (concat grep-command sap)
grep-command)))))
      (compilation-start (concat "< /dev/null " command-args) 'grep-mode))

 Emílio