Re: How to apply (multi file) patches conveniently

[Nick Dokos]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I just mark the entire patch in Emacs, then invoke "M-|", and type
>>
>>   patch -d /the/root/directory/of/the/project -pN
>>
>> where N should be chosen by counting the slashes that you will want
>> Patch to remove before looking for files relative to that root
>> directory.  For patches produced by "git diff" etc., N is typically 1.
>
> Ok thanks, then for now, I'll use a little command that is doing that
> for me (funnily it seems to be impossible to type M-| with a German
> keyboard, not even in X, because you need to hit Meta and AltGr and < at
> the same time, and that doesn't generate an event at all).
>

M-<anything> is a shortcut for ESC-<anything> so you could use the latter form,
as long as you have an ESC key.

-- 
Nick