Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 29/09/2023 18:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:21:43 +0300
> > Cc: ams@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> >   philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >
> > > > 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).
>
> Yes, I found this out by now, thanks.  Which makes it even worse that
> no documentation of "C-x v v" mentions that, anywhere!  (And many
> things that "C-x v v" did for years aren't documented, either, sigh.)
>
> We should do better than that.

We should. But the problem started at the "no feedback" step.

When there is no interest even among the greybeards on this list, why 
spend extra effort advertising something untested?