dalehagglund/magit — comment on commit 622781bc05a58170748d22d1303cbc29f19ab751
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well, that new action wouldn't need to apply on every object, and in case they do, they should do different things. Really I don't know what it'd be like exactly, I'm just trying to figure out if there's a more general concept here, that we could apply to more objects.
Or maybe, what we need is a binding to a generalized `magit-show` that would show a view of a directory or a file at a certain version, while being smart about what the default choice for this version is (commit under mouse in the status or log buffer, previous version when looking at a "-" line in a diff, next when looking at a "+", and so on)

As I said, I find it perfectly reasonable to introduce a way to inspect the "result" of a diff. I just don't feel that should be what `magit-visit-item` does, and certainly not at the cost of the very convenient "go to this file/location" shortcut :)