From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Wales Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:56:16 -0700 Message-ID: References: <86y1p4m9cg.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86bklzs2su.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86fsbbnlaq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2312"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 61396@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 01:57:32 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qUFX0-0000NP-Rf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:56:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:267169 Archived-At: can anybody think of a straightforward workaround for this as described below that the user can do if diff-mode does not do it [which it does not]? i am pretty unsure what would do this. thank you. On 7/22/23, Samuel Wales wrote: > so basically, > > -this is a line that ^looks deleted, but it is changed > ... > +this is a line that REALLY looks deleted, but it is changed i.e. a mechanism to put a missing-text indicator where ^ is? > > what is not indicated for the user is at the ^. i woul dlike it if > diff mode if possible showed that text was deleted there. > > this allows you to look at only the - line and know that it is not a > deleted line, possibly even mistakenly, but rather is part of a cange > set, namely it and the + version of hte same line. this would reduce > user confusion considerably. -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com