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[PATCH] Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer

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Message #17 received at 65380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 65380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65380: [PATCH] Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode
 buffer
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:06:55 +0300

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: 65380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:48:03 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Please tell more about the use cases where this would be useful.  I
> > couldn't understand that from the patch itself.
> 
> A simple example is where someone sends me a patch with a Elisp function
> I'd like to evaluate.  If I can't or don't want to apply the patch right
> now, I can use `diff-kill-ring-save' to copy the function without the
> leading "+" into my scratch buffer and evaluate it there.

But diffs don't necessarily show the entire body/ies of function(s),
they show just part of them.  So this seems to be useful only in a
very small subset of cases?

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