You can set the mark correctly with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kdb&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Space&lt;/kbd&gt; (C-SPC) and magit will only commit the selected portion. 

You can also use &lt;kbd&gt;-&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;+&lt;/kbd&gt; to decrease or increase the extent of the hunks in the diff (and &lt;kbd&gt;0&lt;/kbd&gt; resets), but dominikh&#39;s answer is the most important one to know about.

Magit reuse `diff-mode` but don&#39;t expose many of `diff-mode` commands in its `magit-revision-mode` as this does VC package.

For example you can call `diff-split-hunk` which is usually `C-c C-s` in `diff-mode`.

I want to remove trailing white spaces and tabs from my code without 
removing empty lines.

I tried:

    \s+$

and:

    ([^\n]*)\s+\r\n

But they all removed empty lines too. I guess `\s` matches end-of-line characters too.

----------

*UPDATE (2016):&lt;br&gt;*

*Nowadays I automate such code cleaning by using Sublime&#39;s [TrailingSpaces][1] package, with custom/user setting:*

    &quot;trailing_spaces_trim_on_save&quot;: true
*It highlights trailing white spaces and automatically trims them on save.*


  [1]: https://github.com/SublimeText/TrailingSpaces &quot;TrailingSpaces&quot;

How do I remove trailing whitespace using a regular expression?

I&#39;m trying to update Git from my shared hosting. For that I&#39;m following these steps:

 1. Download latest Git version
 2. Unpack and place it on the server
 3. Configure and create the Makefile -&gt; `./configure --prefix=$HOME/dev/git/src --without-tcltk`
 4. Build the package -&gt; `make` then `make install`
 5. Update PATH .bash_profile

I&#39;m stuck at point 4. When I run the `make` command, I get the following:

    user@ssh1:~/dev/git/src$ make
    SUBDIR gitweb
    SUBDIR ../
    make[2]: ? GIT-VERSION-FILE ? est ? jour.
    GEN git-instaweb
    SUBDIR perl
    SUBDIR git_remote_helpers
    SUBDIR templates
    MSGFMT po/build/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo
    /bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
    make: *** [po/build/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo] Erreur 127

Compiler throws a `msgfmt command not found` error.

I Googled it and it seems to be related to the gettext package.

Any idea how to fix that error on a shared hosting?



Compiler error - msgfmt command not found

I have 2 edits very close by (and therefore part of the same hunk), that I&#39;d like to commit separately. Is it possible to split a hunk from within magit?

Splitting a hunk with magit

<p>I have 2 edits very close by (and therefore part of the same hunk), that I'd like to commit separately. Is it possible to split a hunk from within magit?</p>


When cursor on one parentheses, how to jump to the pairing parentheses. Good to work in **emacs -nw** . 

Just like **%** in Vim.

;;After got hint from @Lindy, @Francesco, I found more:

      C-M-f     Move forward over a balanced expression
      C-M-b     Move backward over a balanced expression
      C-M-k     Kill balanced expression forward
      C-M-SPC   put the mark at the end of the sexp.
      C-M-n  Move forward over a parenthetical group 
      C-M-p  Move backward over a parenthetical group 
      ;; C-M key binding can also be done by --&gt; ESC Control-key

      ;;And put this to .emacs, it will highlight opening/closing parens:
      (show-paren-mode 1)

With emacs, how to go to the pairing (balancing) parentheses

I use Emacs for years, and nowadays, I write a lot of files in org mode, such as notes, plans/conclusions or something else. However but most website support markdown-style instead of org-style. StackOverflow is an example. :)

Can someone tell me the exact difference between these two? Pros and cons?
And which did you choose and why?

Compare markdown or org mode

I am using `package` to manage my Emacs extensions. In order to synchronize my Emacs settings on different computers, I&#39;d like a way to specify a list of package names in `.emacs` file and then `package` could automatically search and install the packages, so that I don&#39;t need to install them manually by calling `M-x package-list-packages`. How to do that?

How to automatically install Emacs packages by specifying a list of package names?

How do I launch GUI Emacs from the command line in OSX?

I have downloaded and installed Emacs from http://emacsformacosx.com/.

I&#39;ll accept an answer fulfilling all of the following criteria:

1. The emacs window opens *in front of* my terminal window.
1. Typing &quot;emacs&quot; launches a GUI Emacs window.  Finding files in that window will default to looking in the directory from where I started Emacs.
2. Typing &quot;emacs foo.txt&quot; when foo.txt exists launches a GUI Emacs window with foo.txt loaded.
3. Typing &quot;emacs foo.txt&quot; when foo.txt does *not* exist launches a GUI Emacs window with an empty text buffer named &quot;foo.txt&quot;.  Doing ^X^S in that buffer will save foo.txt in the directory from where I started Emacs.


How to launch GUI Emacs from command line in OSX?

I am using Org-mode in Emacs to handle all my technical documentation. I would like to use Emacs to prepare questions that I have for Stack Overflow. Is there an Emacs mode for that, or even better, an extension for Org-mode to handle Stack Overflow formatting? Ideally it should include all formatting options supported by the markdown syntax used in the Stack Overflow question/comment buffers.

Emacs mode for Stack Overflow&#39;s markdown

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/278192/view-the-change-history-of-a-file-using-git-versioning talks about other ways of viewing history of a file in Git.

Can it be done in Emacs Magit? 

View a file&#39;s history in Magit?

From emacs, how can I see the details (e.g. commit message) of the commit that last changed the line at point?

I have magit installed.

git blame with commit details in emacs

*The question is about Magit major mode for Emacs function and less so about how to do this via command line interface.*

I only have a local Git repository. How would I restore a selected file to its previous version? I believe that the Git command for this must be something like `git checkout HEAD^ path/to/file` but I may be wrong here too, just guessing really.

What I&#39;m looking for is essentially the same thing as &lt;kbd&gt;C-x v u&lt;/kbd&gt; in `vc-dir` buffer.

Essentially, what I was hoping to do was:

* delete the modified file.

* pull from local repo.

But **Magit** doesn&#39;t seem to be able to do that, it seems to prefer to just delete the file, instead of restoring it.

Magit revert single file

Say I&#39;ve made a number of unrelated changes to uncoupled files in my git repo. I want to review and commit each of the files separately.

I run `magit-status`, and get a list of changed files. But the only magit diff commands I can find (`d` and `D`) diff entire revisons, not individual files.

I want the output of `git diff &lt;filename&gt;`, but in the magit diff buffer. How can I get magit to diff only one file? 

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Splitting a hunk with magit

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