Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:11:17 +0300
> Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org,
>  philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 26/09/2023 15:03, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >     > With vc-diff (similar, diff-buffer-with-file) you are diffing whatever
> >     > you have against VC (or file), there is little point to edit via the
> >     > diff, and you'd more likley just save this to file or an email.  So in
> >     > those cases the buffer being read-only makes more sense.
> > 
> >     Sounds like you missed the new feature: committing a patch (C-v C-v in a
> >     vc-diff buffer). You would usually edit it as well.
> > 
> > I really hope you typoed that, rebinding C-v to something other than
> > scrolling is a beyond terrible idea.
> 
> Correction: C-x v v.

That functionality of "C-x v v" is only available for Git (and
basically is undocumented), so it's too early to declare victory.