Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 29/09/2023 09:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:11:17 +0300
> > Cc:joaotavora@gmail.com,monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,eliz@gnu.org,
> >   philipk@posteo.net,emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >
> > On 26/09/2023 15:03, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > >      > With vc-diff (similar, diff-buffer-with-file) you are diffing whatever
> > >      > you have against VC (or file), there is little point to edit via the
> > >      > diff, and you'd more likley just save this to file or an email.  So in
> > >      > those cases the buffer being read-only makes more sense.
> > >
> > >      Sounds like you missed the new feature: committing a patch (C-v C-v in a
> > >      vc-diff buffer). You would usually edit it as well.
> > >
> > > I really hope you typoed that, rebinding C-v to something other than
> > > scrolling is a beyond terrible idea.
> > Correction: C-x v v.
> That functionality of "C-x v v" is only available for Git (and
> basically is undocumented), so it's too early to declare victory.

It's available for Git, for Hg (two separate dedicated implementations), 
and for the other VCSes too on best-effort basis (see the function 
vc-default-checkin-patch).

Here was me asking for feedback from SVN/CVS users:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg01355.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg01954.html