Re: A vc wish: vc-timemachine

[John Yates]

Agreed.  The basic bits of functionality are latent in vc.  Or, put another way, timemachine is mostly a ui optimization.

That said, that optimization can be significant when looking for a revision, if the subject code has been heavily edited.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 3:18 PM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

> That said, vc-annotate is a jarring presentation.  As I browse through
> different revisions I want the major mode to remain that of the original
> (non-annotated) file.  I want syntax-based highlighting, lsp support, etc.

This looks rather like the Log-View buffer where revisions are navigated
with `n' and `p', and visited with `f' (log-view-find-revision).

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