From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Kifer <michael.kifer@stonybrook.edu>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 17388@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17388: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: Ediff - 1) wrong face, 2) incorrect diffing
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 13:41:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a7b1409-edbe-4633-829f-0a839d69b11a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536511E3.1000905@stonybrook.edu>
>>>> There should be EITHER, (a) as previously, NO fine diffs shown for
>>>> other than the current diff OR (b) CORRECT (helpful) fine diffs
>>>> shown for the non-current diffs.
>>>
>>> Ediff's "fine diffs" are word-granular. That is, Ediff breaks each
>>> line into "words", then passes the result to the Diff program for
>>> comparisoon, and reflects the results with different faces. AFAIR,
>>> this has always been that way.
>>
>> OK, so you are saying that Emacs has silently changed to (b) from (a),
>> and the way it does fine diffs corresponds to what is shown. So be it.
>
> Ediff never showed fine diffs for any region but the current one.
Precisely. To (b) from (a). Emacs never showed fine diffs for
non-current diffs before.
It's OK with me if it does so now. I thought that the inaccurate
fine diffs shown for this were new and particular to this non-current
diff highlighting. I was corrected: apparently fine diffs are this
inaccurate in general.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-03 20:41 UTC|newest]
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2014-05-03 14:01 ` bug#17388: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: Ediff - 1) wrong face, 2) incorrect diffing Drew Adams
2014-05-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-05-03 15:57 ` Michael Kifer
2014-05-03 20:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-05-04 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-04 7:16 ` Drew Adams
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2014-05-03 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-02 15:15 Drew Adams
2014-05-02 18:57 ` Stephen Berman
2014-05-03 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-03 3:11 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-03 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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