Re: New commands for browsing diffs easily

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On 11 Apr 2006, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:

>> I think next-error and previous-error (used in occur-mode, compilation
>> modes, grep, and others right now) would be perfect.  Look at the
>> definition of next-error in simple.el, you just need to bind
>> next-error-function.
>
> They're alredy used to jump from hukn to hunk in the source buffer.

Oops :)  Sorry I was not thinking!

I've given thought to this actually, despite being obtuse above...
Where next-error and previous-error deal with "go to the next/previous
item" it might make sense to have a "meta-next" and "meta-previous"
which go to the next/previous container of items.  In Lars' example,
it would be a set of diffs for example, as he specified.  In
compilation mode, perhaps it would go to the next bunch of errors
relevant to the current compilation but in a different file.  Kind of
like next-paragraph, if next-error is like next-line.

Ted