Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>> Note: Files are not saved automatically, because this is a different
>>>        concern.
>>
>> "Not saving files automatically" is a power-user approach too.
>>
>> We have that in query-replace and naturally in
>> xref-query-replace-in-results too, but having a large refactoring across
>> many files end up in a not-synced-to-disk condition is a complication. Not
>> everyone knows about save-some-buffers and auto-revert-mode.
>
> This is a real problem.  Diff mode requires typing a long sequence of
> 'C-c C-a C-c C-a C-c C-a C-c C-a ...' to apply the whole diff.

I had proposed adding a command to diff-mode, that would apply the
entire buffer.  It appears that was not applied.

>
> A possible solution would be to support a region by 'C-c C-a'.
> Then it will be possible to activate the region on the whole buffer
> or on a few hunks, and type a single 'C-c C-a'.
>
> Another problem that the changes are not saved automatically
> on multiple files.  This limitation forces to use tricks like
> 'M-| git apply RET' after selecting the whole diff buffer with 'C-x h'
> or a region of the diff buffer.  A "poor man's auto-save".