Following my previous article on
VC, I felt like proposing a key binding for vc-git-stash to the Emacs
developers was something that could turn out to be useful for other VC users.
As it is usually recommended to do in these cases,1 I filed my request using
M-x
report-emacs-bug:
#52158. You can see that
I specifically mentioned mu-vc-git-stash, the thin wrapper I coded to have VC
stashing commands easily reachable, in order to back my proposal with the custom
code I used to scratch a tiny itch.
Lars Ingebrigtsen, one of the Emacs
co-maintainers, replied to me quickly2 suggesting that I can use C
if I put my cursor on the Stash: line of the vc-dir buffer. That led me to
discover that if I move the cursor onto a line pointing to a stash I can press
P
to pop it with vc-git-stash-pop-at-point. The outcome should be
obvious: I can get rid of mu-vc-git-stash.
Why wasn’t I using these key bindings before? As I wrote on the bug tracker,
C-h m
in vc-dir buffers does not document them and I did not find
them explained in the 28.1.10.2 VC Directory Commands section of the manual
either. If the documentation is not added, I may get in touch with the Emacs
maintainers to see if I can contribute it myself. Unless of course the
documentation is already there and it’s just my reading and searching skills
failing me.