GNU bug report logs - #65734
29.1.50; kill-whole-line and visibility of Org subtrees

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 65734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org, iota <at> whxvd.name
Subject: Re: bug#65734: [BUG] kill-whole-line on folded subtrees [9.6.8
 (release_9.6.8-3-g21171d @ /home/w/usr/emacs/0/29/0/lisp/org/)]
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:16:42 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: Sebastian Miele <iota <at> whxvd.name>, 65734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:23:23 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> The following would do it.  I think I tested it rather thoroughly.
> >> During testing I found another bug that is addressed by the let-binding
> >> of kill-read-only-ok during the first kill-region below.
> >
> > Thanks.  Sadly, we don't have any tests for this function in our test
> > suite, so verifying this non-trivial change will not be easy...
> 
> Then, what should we do to move things forward? I guess the first step
> will be writing these missing tests.

Yes, that'd be most welcome.

> Anything else?

How about asking on emacs-devel that people who use kill-whole-line
frequently install the patch and run with it for some time?  (We could
do that after installing the changes on master, of course.)

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