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bug#41779: Fall back between vc-diff and diff-backup
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Juri Linkov |
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bug#41779: Fall back between vc-diff and diff-backup |
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Date: |
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:53:56 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Considering that 'M-=' is not a default binding, and diff-backup doesn't
> have one, how about creating a new command? You could just as well bind
> it to 'M-='.
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> The command could be called 'diff-dwim'. Or 'diff-vc-or-backup'.
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> Regarding the proposed patch, I'm somewhat uneasy making 'vc-diff' (the
> command which purpose is to compare edits against the "saved" snapshot
> in version control) diff against the backup (lifetime of which is very
> unclear to me). Or vice versa.
Why do you think that throwing an error is more useful than doing
some nice fallback?