From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs doc changes Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:15:44 +0200 Message-ID: <85bquxfn3j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17469.53282.265431.557135@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <4nd5flnwtg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nek002s4h.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nejzv9b98.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n7j5l5xt6.fsf_-_@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <85fyk9fnxv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4nacah4f88.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145470584 27095 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 18:16:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 20:16:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWHDl-0002W2-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:16:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWHDl-0001aG-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWHDY-0001a3-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWHDX-0001Zq-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWHDX-0001Zn-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWHEh-0001nr-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:17:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FWHDX-0003FZ-6Z; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 092ED1C3DB49; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:15:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Ted Zlatanov In-Reply-To: <4nacah4f88.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:01:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53094 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On 19 Apr 2006, dak@gnu.org wrote: > >> Is there a reason not to use unified diffs ("diff -u") when >> available? Of course, not all diff programs can provide them, but >> GNU diff does, and patch understands them just as well, and I find >> it quite more human-readable (if I consider myself representative >> for a human, that is). > > RMS has asked me for context diffs before, so I'm guessing unified > patches are less useful to Emacs maintainers... I am not sure about that: maybe it is just because not all diff programs can deliver unified. That's why I was asking Eli. > I can provide -u as well, since I would just do "cvs diff -u" > instead of "cvs diff -c". Well, context diffs certainly are fine enough for use with "patch", so there is little reason to post another batch because of that. I was more asking about a general policy. I have actually customized `diff-switches' to "-u" myself, and it would be interesting to hear whether that could cause trouble in any way when cooperating with other people. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum