From: David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>
Subject: Re: makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer
Date: 04 Dec 2002 11:19:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu1ht383c.fsf@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: buo65uava2n.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp
>>>>> Miles Bader writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> I think it would be nice to write a command in Emacs that would
>> simplify patches for easier viewing. It could note lines that just
>> change in whitespace and remove them.
> Ediff has some functionality like this -- it `refines' thunks it
> gets from diff by doing its own diff algorithm at the character
> level, and can indicate via faces which parts of thunks are
> important.
> Perhaps the ediff code that does this can be stolen to provide a
> simple filter for patch files that could add face text properties as
> appropriate.
Doesn't the epatch part of ediff already take this into account by
allowing you to patch the file temporarily and then bring up ediff to
allow you to walk through and accept each of the diffs? Plus, could
you use ediff-diff?-options to tell diff to ignore whitespace
differences (via '-w')?
--
David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87adka7747.fsf@zip.com.au>
[not found] ` <E18Ddmd-0007x2-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-11-29 23:21 ` makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer Kevin Ryde
2002-11-30 6:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-12-02 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-02 6:08 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-02 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-02 20:54 ` Kevin Ryde
2002-12-03 14:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-04 1:37 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 6:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 19:19 ` David Masterson [this message]
2002-12-04 20:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-02 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-02 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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