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#8366
wish: include vc-annotate-goto-line
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Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:11:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 19:49, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Juanma, feel free to install such a feature.
Hmm, no. It's just half-cooked; I threw it together in a few minutes
to help the OP.
> AFAIK there should be a better way to find the file.
> E.g. vc-parent-buffer.
Fist time I've heard of it ;-)
> Annotate buffer may display a different version that the one of the
> checked out file. E.g. because you have local uncommitted changes, or
> because you asked for the annotations of an older revision. So line
> numbers may not fully match. In general, there's no much we can do
> about it, but we should probably try a bit harder than the above,
> e.g. by looking for the closest line with the same text as the line
> we're looking for. Better would be to ask for a diff between the
> annotated revision and the current file and use it to find out the
> line-offset to use (for those cases where this method works).
Even if the buffer contains the same version, there's the matter of
visual-line-mode, truncate-lines, etc. which can affect line count. So
yes, for a robust answer looking at the context seems essential.
Juanma
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