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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff highlight sub-line differences in non-current sections?
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 21:08:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1tigypxr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oalki4zj.fsf@iankelling.org> (Ian Kelling's message of "Sat, 16 May 2015 14:31:44 -0700")

> I looked into this over a year ago, and it seemed it wasn't implemented.

Indeed, that's my impression as well.

> I'm tempted to dive into the source, but I'm curious what anyone else
> might know.

I haven't looked into it, but I think one important issue is
performance: refined diffs can take a non-negligible amount of time
to get.  The current code does it one section at a time, which makes it
quite bearable, but if you want to do it for all sections (not just the
current one), the total cost might become significant enough that we
should try to do it lazily/incrementally/asynchronously.


        Stefan



      reply	other threads:[~2015-05-17  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-16 21:31 ediff highlight sub-line differences in non-current sections? Ian Kelling
2015-05-17  1:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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