Re: vc-diff in vc-dir

[Stefan Monnier]

> In dired (Emacs 22.1)  you could use vc-diff (v =) on a single file
> when other files were marked by placing the cursor over it.  In vc-dir
> you always get a diff of the marked files.  Perhaps this is useful
> also, but quite often I start to mark files and then want to see what
> changes I have in other edited files.  I can no longer do that without
> visiting the file in a buffer first.

Indeed, that lead PCL-CVS developpers to treat diff specially.
See cvs-diff-ignore-marks (historical variable, then generalized to
cvs-invert-ignore-marks).
Thewre's also cvs-mode-toggle-marks which causes the next command to
ignore marks.


        Stefan