From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>,
kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer),
traverso@dm.unipi.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:40:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeit7v42yi.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shlmcrvo0e.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de> (Karl Eichwalder's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2002 05:04:01 +0100")
Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:
|> Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org> writes:
|>
|> >> Ediff is designed to parse the output of diff and then present it in
|> >> different ways.
|>
|> Concerning presentation there isn't that much to change
|>
|> >> What you are proposing is a kind of "incremental diff", if I
|> >> understand it correctly. I think it would require a major
|> >> generalization of the existing code to do that.
|>
|> Yes, it is kind of "incremental"; let's consider these variants:
|>
|> ->>Everyone in the world is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
|> ^^^^
|> <<-
|>
|> ->>Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
|> of the license document, but changing it is not allowed.
|> ~~~
|> <<-
|>
|> Ediff sees only 1 difference, and the user may ask for a
|> `ediff-switch-to-line-mode' option able to make chunks of the hunks:
Emerge has a command to split a difference into two hunks
(emerge-split-difference). I have used this quite often before I
switched to ediff.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 13:54 ediff feature request: diffing line by line Karl Eichwalder
2002-03-16 16:27 ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-16 17:43 ` Michael Kifer
2002-03-16 23:04 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-17 4:04 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-03-17 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-03-17 16:26 ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-17 18:37 ` Michael Kifer
2002-03-17 20:41 ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-17 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
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