[Emacspeak] Re: Stage part of a hunk in magit

[T.V Raman <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Makarios <emacspeak.correspondence(a)freespoken.nz> writes:


See past thread about transient-mark mode. If you really want this
behavior, explicitly turn on transient mark mode *after* emacspeak is
started.
> On Thu, 2021-05-13 at 14:07 +1000, Tim Cross wrote:
>> In what way does it not work or does it behave differently when
>> emacspeak is running? Are there any errors? 
>
> If I've got multiple new consecutive lines in a file tracked by Git, and I
> want to stage only, say, the first two, I can bring up the diff in Magit,
> move to the first new line, press C-<SPC>, move to the second line, and
> press s to stage only those two marked lines.  This works if Emacspeak isn't
> loaded, but if Emacspeak is loaded, then it always stages the entire hunk
> (as determined by Git), regardless of where the mark is set.  I see no error
> messages, nor any difference in the output to the magit-process buffer.
>
> Also, without Emacspeak loaded, Magit uses different highlighting for the
> lines between the mark and point (inclusive) when I'm doing this, but I
> can't see any difference in Magit's highlighting when Emacspeak is loaded. 
> I realize that many on this list may not be able to appreciate the
> difference in highlighting, but I thought it might be useful diagnostically,
> since the Magit manual says (in the Getting Started chapter):
>> If the region looks like it does in other buffers, then it doesn’t select
>> Magit sections that can be acted on as a unit.
>
> All the best,
>
> Tim
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Thanks,

--Raman
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