"Sittampalam, Ganesh" <[email protected]> writes:

> I would hope that it would be fairly trivial, but I know nothing about
> emacs modes.

I know a little, but not enough :-)

> Simon Marlow mentioned last week that he thought darcsum would really
> need darcs to provide a simpler way to just split a hunk
> (http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022983.html)

Thanks for the link. (I don't subscribe to darcs-users -- perhaps I
ought to -- and was reading this from -café).

> - is that what you'd want too or would you want the full power of
> editing?

I think this would get me 90% of the way, yes.

> Naively I'd expect that it should be easier for an editor mode
> to cope with actually editing a patch, though I imagine if most people
> just wanted to split then there would be a simpler UI possible.

An alternative might be to allow the user to arbitrarily edit (in an
Emacs buffer) a temporary copy of the file?  This way I could also check
my changes with C-c C-l before recording - I often record my changes in
different patches, but this means that the intermediate stages aren't
tested, and may not even compile.

> If there's demand and it can be slotted into the UI neatly,

I think this could be done entirely within Emacs/darcsum, so perhaps
it's not a darcs issue at all.

-k
-- 
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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