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bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:35:47 +0300 |
> Cc: 65854@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:23:37 +0200
> From: Eshel Yaron via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> >> I wonder what happens if I call `multi-file-replace-regexp-as-diff` and
> >> select a file `foo.txt`, that I already have open and modified in a
> >> buffer. IIUC, this will generate the diff based on the contents of the
> >> file on disk, not the buffer, so it might not match when I subsequently
> >> try to apply the diff to the buffer. WDYT?
> >
> > For such cases you can use multi-buffer-replace-regexp-as-diff
> > from this patch instead of multi-file-replace-regexp-as-diff.
>
> Well, in the simple example of one file, yes that possible, but the
> point is that you don't always know (or worry about) whether there's an
> overlap between the files you have open and modified and the files your
> regexp/wildcard matches. Let's say I'm editing an HTML file, and find
> something that I'd like to change. So I do it. Than I think "actually,
> let's change that across all my HTML files in this directory". IMO It
> would be great if I could use this new command,
> `multi-file-replace-regexp-as-diff`, to get a diff showing how that'd
> look. But in the proposed implementation, that won't work if one of
> those HTML files is open and modified--without any warning, Emacs would
> create a diff that doesn't apply.
Our usual paradigm for these commands is to offer saving any buffers
with unsaved edits, before running the main part of the command.
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/10
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Eshel Yaron, 2023/09/10
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/11
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/12
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/15
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Eshel Yaron, 2023/09/15
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/15
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/22
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/22
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/22
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/22
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Juri Linkov, 2023/09/23
- bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/23