Re: bug#65734: [BUG] kill-whole-line on folded subtrees [9.6.8 (release_9.6.8-3-g21171d @ /home/w/usr/emacs/0/29/0/lisp/org/)]

[Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name>]

> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 2023-09-06 15:16 +0300
>
>> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
>> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:23:23 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> The following would do it.  I think I tested it rather thoroughly.
>> >> During testing I found another bug that is addressed by the let-binding
>> >> of kill-read-only-ok during the first kill-region below.
>> >
>> > Thanks.  Sadly, we don't have any tests for this function in our test
>> > suite, so verifying this non-trivial change will not be easy...
>> 
>> Then, what should we do to move things forward? I guess the first step
>> will be writing these missing tests.
>
> Yes, that'd be most welcome.

I will write the tests.  And I will probably come up with an updated
version of the original patch.  There is at least one cosmetic change.
And something else that I want to have tried.  May take some time.

>> Anything else?
>
> How about asking on emacs-devel that people who use kill-whole-line
> frequently install the patch and run with it for some time?  (We could
> do that after installing the changes on master, of course.)