From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Background mode Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:52:52 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87irzzbd0y.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87oea5urwm.fsf@jurta.org> <87psujj0h0.fsf@jurta.org> <86hdfv1y9b.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <87psuiqzcj.fsf@jurta.org> <87is09n00n.fsf@jurta.org> <87hdfr4t99.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87u0jkyekf.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119929380 13691 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 03:29:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 05:29:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn6mk-00007F-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:29:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn6uW-000343-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn6m1-0006Hs-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn6lm-00069Z-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn6lm-00064b-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dn6lZ-00064X-2z; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-41-107-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.41.107]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045491E4D; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:23:33 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:46:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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:39717 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39717 > When sending patches here, would you please use diff -c, not diff -u? > I find I cannot understand a diff -u patch unless it is very simple. I think diff -u is better when the goal is to show just the differences, but diff -c is better for changes in the middle of non-trivial code. > When I try to read the lines and think about what they do, > I cannot keep track of which lines are old and which are new. Maybe it will help to send patches as inline text/x-patch attachments? Such attachments are highlighted by diff-mode in the article buffer (at least in Gnus), so after customizing diff mode faces it would be easier to see which lines are old or new. > However, after some struggling, I was able to read this change. OK, I will remember to send patches with diff -c. > It seems like a good idea, so please install it. I think it should > be mentioned in NEWS, and maybe somewhere in a manual, but I am not > sure where. Since `default-frame-background-mode' is not a user option, but an internal variable, then maybe it should be mentioned under the `Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1' section of etc/NEWS? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/