[darcs-users] How do you rename a patch with amend-record?

[Trent W. Buck]

Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen at bessy.de> writes:

> Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> Arguably learning how to exit without saving from vi and nano should
>> be one of your first UNIX lessons :-)
>
> I know vi enough to do very simple tasks and doesn't nano list the
> most important keys at the bottom? However, I once got an emacs as
> $EDITOR.  Tried every combination of keys I could think of but to no
> avail. IIRC, in the end I did a Ctrl-Z and killed it ;-)

Though I use Emacs myself, I think a UNIX system ought not use that as
the default editor.  For the record, ^X^C is how to quit Emacs -- that
will ask you if you want to write unsaved changes to disk.

> Besides, I am also speaking on behalf of much less knowledgeable *nix
> users, most of whom really don't want to be bothered with these
> things.

Fair enough.

> Funny, I never realized that -m works with amend-record.

My patch in response to this thread adds a mention of -m to amend's
help.