From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: ediff feature request: diffing line by line Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:54:34 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016287081 18629 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2002 13:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carlo Traverso , Michael Kifer Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16mEh6-0004qM-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:58:00 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16mEkT-0004S1-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:01:29 +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 16mEgG-0001LQ-00; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16mEfJ-0001L4-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16mEfG-0005LF-00; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:56:06 +0100 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 84BCEA4453; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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:1967 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1967 --=-=-= Let me forward this enhancement proposal: --=-=-= Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline From: Carlo Traverso To: "Project Gutenberg volunteer discussion" Cc: gutvol-d@listserv.unc.edu Subject: Re: Intelligent diffing (Re: britannica 1911) Reply-To: "Project Gutenberg volunteer discussion" Message-Id: Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:47:22 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 [...] ediff is great, (is one of my favorite tools) but is insufficient if you have more differences in the same line, or differences in several consecutive lines (and you have to choose differently for each of them); it is clearly tuned for different versions of code, not on OCR output. Initially I considered modifying ediff, but the code is too complex, I hope to have something usable with much less effort. --=-=-= This basically means a diff is required that compares line by line and that allows to say "next word" from version A or "rest of line" from version B is wanted. Here is Carlo's prototyp in Lisp: http://www.dm.unipi.it/~traverso/Ebooks/Lsp/ocrdiff.lsp -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*) --=-=-=-- _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel