Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 26/09/2023 08:36, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> With vc-diff (similar, diff-buffer-with-file) you are diffing whatever
> you have against VC (or file), there is little point to edit via the
> diff, and you'd more likley just save this to file or an email.  So in
> those cases the buffer being read-only makes more sense.

Sounds like you missed the new feature: committing a patch (C-v C-v in a 
vc-diff buffer). You would usually edit it as well.