Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can force edit it (see the other answers), but I think the best > way to "edit" a patch, is to duplicate the source directory, apply the > patch on one copy, edit this copy of the source files, then invoke > diff to create a new patch.
Note that editing a patch with emacs `diff-mode' active is actually fairly painless, because diff-mode takes care of keeping details like the line counts updated, offers convenient functions like hunk- splitting, makes it super easy to test your changes, etc. I regularly edit patches directly because of diff-mode. [A common reason to edit a patch is because it _won't_ apply otherwise: you basically look at the patch to see why doesn't match the source, edit the patch to test your guess, and if it then applies cleanly, you've got a nice record in the edited patch.] -Miles -- "Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
