Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Juri Linkov]

> Can't that be solved using something like,
>
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (while (not (eobp))
>   (diff-apply-hunk))

It's basically what Philip proposed in bug#60338.

> Or some such and have it bound to something sensible, maybe collecting
> the files it touched for a later save.

Good idea, then with a prefix argument e.g. 'C-u C-c C-A' could save
the buffers after applying the entire patch.

>    A possible solution would be to support a region by 'C-c C-a'.
>
> A region might not be a valid thing to apply -- it is better to work
> with hunks.

It's possible to detect hunk boundaries that start/end inside the selected 
region.