From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:05:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383854725 6385 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2013 20:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Kifer , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Matzi Kratzi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 21:05:29 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 1VeVpT-0004Ub-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:05:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeVpS-0000Un-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeVpH-0000Q1-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeVpA-0000cb-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:05:11 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:40842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeVpA-0000aZ-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:05:04 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLzd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYWCgMFCws0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLzd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYWCgMFCws0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="37327407" Original-Received: from 69-196-188-221.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.188.221]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Nov 2013 15:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4EE5160109; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:05:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Matzi Kratzi's message of "Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:33:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:165052 Archived-At: > 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