From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:40:53 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200203161743.MAA02813@sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu> <87bsdof724.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016379800 17890 127.0.0.1 (17 Mar 2002 15:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alex Schroeder , kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer), traverso@dm.unipi.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16mcoZ-0004eS-00 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:43:19 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16mcsQ-0008MR-00 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:47:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16mcnQ-0002aZ-00; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16mcmH-0002Xm-00; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785181E2DD; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:40:56 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: Karl Eichwalder X-Yow: I demand IMPUNITY! In-Reply-To: (Karl Eichwalder's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2002 05:04:01 +0100") Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1985 Karl Eichwalder writes: |> Alex Schroeder 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel