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Multi-file replacement diff

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Cc: 65854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65854: Multi-file replacement diff
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:38:56 +0300

> Yes, but what is the use case for generating the diff based on the
> contents on disk when the file is modified in Emacs?  Basically, my
> suggestion is to check in `multi-file-replace-regexp-as-diff` if any of
> the matching files are visited by some buffer, and if so simply pass the
> buffer instead of the file name for that file to
> `multi-file-replace-as-diff`.  That way you always get an up-to-date
> diff, and you don't need to manually check that you don't have any of
> the matching files open by any chance.  Does that make sense?

Thanks for the idea, this makes sense and will help to
reduce the number of commands from 2 to 1 by merging
multi-buffer-replace-regexp-as-diff with
multi-file-replace-regexp-as-diff.

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