From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matzi Kratzi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 21:31:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383856299 25362 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2013 20:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Kifer , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 21:31:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VeWEw-0006CJ-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:31:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeWEw-0002wt-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:31:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeWEq-0002r9-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeWEk-0008TR-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:31:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::22e]:46897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeWEk-0008T9-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:31:30 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id p61so1080319wes.33 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:31:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=fkakvfQivYTwfU7a5eMO8znAM/tpisYHfQ8DdB8qpEM=; b=tQxhi9Z5WvsxUal/FBPfhFxpElLZtvgCkCz4BFW2xA9lsjEmswGwYDkejWCcrTyvF4 uBBhjvxrGV5Du2KcGgk3Nxz3+g+3LkNlnu3YdYPhkiCgU+2fV6I/J0VS4chxnSIVqpLI iH0Od4Rzq3cyKLQuR5Jk4ctbmAgDHEp2QX53IkxoVJeFy6BiLQkd88KrXcqbYiHgo6py m88YTRqOqZmRgZ4UNftj/fh4PuR6aL7MFKpR8Kp7hnyVUYGfE3B6tBrA04oaGZvoPjJG MHp/awNQ5RUfWWxY+N/DO+lRfhyzl98w3IYNJuE6HTZPesUaEMWj0NhijJBnkK9kCxNC YahA== X-Received: by 10.194.94.137 with SMTP id dc9mr8158900wjb.38.1383856289601; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:31:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.164.134 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:31:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::22e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165053 Archived-At: The Other SW that I tested gave the user the possibility to set several pairs of sync lines. /Mats On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I really like ediff and almost always prefer it. >> There is however one feature that I really would like it to gain (or >> really would like to know how it can already be done): >> One of the for-money-competitors gives the user the possibility to >> help the tool by pointing to sync lines in the buffers. >> That way the diff can become much better. > >> Is this possible already? > > I don't think Ediff currently supports it. It shouldn't be terribly > hard to add support for it (basically a sync line would split the region > such that the text before and the text after are passed to separate > invocations of `diff'). > > > Stefan