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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, 61396@debbugs.gnu.org,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, samologist@gmail.com
Subject: bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:18:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838r8na5k2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r0mf1rzl.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:38:22 +0300)

> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>, 61396@debbugs.gnu.org,
>  Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:38:22 +0300
> 
> I realized now the same problem exists even without color highlighting at all.
> This is because of a poor choice of indicators in the diff utility.

Which I guess is why many (all?) of the other systems that show
changes use the side-by-side display, where these problems largely
don't exist.  So maybe we should migrate to using "diff -y" or sdiff?





  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-30 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-10  3:25 bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines Samuel Wales
2023-02-10  7:17 ` Juri Linkov
2023-02-10 23:49   ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-10 23:50     ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-10 13:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-11  4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-11  5:07   ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-11 17:54     ` Juri Linkov
2023-02-12  0:52       ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-12  1:04         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-12  1:07           ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-12  1:52             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-12  2:12               ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-12  2:17                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-12  2:54                   ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-12  8:31         ` Juri Linkov
2023-02-12  9:03           ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-12 17:20             ` Juri Linkov
2023-02-12 22:16               ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-12 22:48                 ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-23  6:04                   ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-24 10:21                     ` Robert Pluim
2023-07-24 23:38                       ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-24 23:39                         ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-25  8:11                           ` Robert Pluim
2023-07-25 21:29                             ` Samuel Wales
2023-08-10 23:56                     ` Samuel Wales
2023-08-11  0:41                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-03 17:29                     ` Juri Linkov
2023-03-08 21:14 ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-04 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-04 22:38   ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-07  2:34     ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-12 22:11   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-12 22:31     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-13 14:51       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-14  6:05         ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-14 22:42         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-15  1:34           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-15  1:58             ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-15 10:20             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-30 17:38         ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-30 18:18           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-01  6:32             ` Juri Linkov
2023-10-01 15:54           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-01 18:53             ` Juri Linkov
2023-10-01 22:16               ` Samuel Wales
2023-10-02  6:48                 ` Juri Linkov
2023-10-02 16:56   ` Juri Linkov

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