From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: faq.texi Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:49:00 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140038320 15461 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2006 21:18:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 22:18:38 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 1F9U2G-0000mB-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:18:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9U2F-0007GJ-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F9Rjw-00019A-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F9Rif-0007Y7-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9RiA-0006PL-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1F9Rn7-00036M-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k1FIn8Iw021662 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:49:08 -0600 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k1FIn8k3010206 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:49:08 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-72-35.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.72.35]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k1FIn6Zx010153 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:49:07 -0700 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:50584 Archived-At: >Maybe I'm weird, but I do tend to use C-y reasonably often in a >specific circumstance: when i want to see how well two regions of >text match, I go to the beginning of one, and hit C-y until the search >fails; this could be done with C-w too but it's a lot more tedious for >big regions. I do this, too - more precisely, C-y through one region until the regexp highlighting stops on the other. Is this mostly (only?) useful for different areas of the same buffer (since you mention isearch highlighting other areas)? I assume you didn't literally mean "region" here, but just "section" of text, no? For comparing text sections in two different buffers, I usually select them, `C-x n n', and use ediff on them. For sections in the same buffer, I sometimes paste one section into a new buffer and do the same. Maybe your technique would be handier (quicker) in that case, at least to find a first difference. But IIUC, the two sections would need to be visible simultaneously - e.g. near each other or in different windows.