Subject: Re: bug#65380: [PATCH] Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:46:01 +0300

> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:53:58 +0000
> 
> This command solves a long-standing annoyance I have had when working
> with diffs.  To my knowledge there is no existing way to achieve this
> (rectangular selection might be possible, but that behaves differently
> when the text is yanked).  The binding "w" seems intuitive when
> contrasted with "M-w", but might be confused with "W" (widen).  Not sure
> if that is an issue or not.

Please tell more about the use cases where this would be useful.  I
couldn't understand that from the patch itself.

Thanks.