Re: [patch: first impression]

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 24.10.2022 18:32, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> I see. BTW I only realised by now that the fact that
> a buffer in diff-mode is in read-only mode is not essential but not a
> required feature.

Yes. And you can also edit the diff before typing 'C-x v v'.

> I say this, because sometimes the diff file contains a lot of hunks and
> I only want to commit 2 of say 20.
>
> Then toggling read-only off and just delete the hunks via kill-region,
> simplify things a lot (instead of killing each hunk separately, using
> next-hunk and kill-hunk).

If might be handy to add commands that act on region (and delete full 
hunks, for instance), so that you aren't forced to toggle read-only.