From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: ediff: replace refined differences Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:01:25 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c9a6c5$cf835a70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237269720 21779 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 06:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:02:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Martin Rubey'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 07:03:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjSOJ-00014I-Fb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:03:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjSMx-0007Qt-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjSMS-0007Qf-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjSMO-0007Px-Sf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38791 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjSMO-0007Pu-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:43682 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjSMO-0003je-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n2H60r4E028729 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:00:54 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt707.oracle.com (acsmt707.oracle.com [141.146.40.85]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n2H610t1022697; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:01:02 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.88.190) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:00:55 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acmmwhc14bxQyDwNSV2DEXnHQUgOWAAAznEg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt707.oracle.com [141.146.40.85] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.49BF3C9A.00B2:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62995 Archived-At: > I love ediff. I'd love it even better, if there was a way to copy > refined differences selectively: > > currently, ediff lets me copy a difference region from one buffer to > the other by pressing a or b. > > Frequently, I do not want to have the whole difference region copied, > but only parts of it. Is there a nice way to do that? AFAIK, there is no way to, say, incrementally or selectively copy parts of a single diff from, say, A to B. You can, however, quit ediff, narrow the buffers to the parts you're interested in, and then use ediff again. Just a workaround, but it can sometimes be useful, especially if ediff doesn't quite see things the way you do. ;-) Perhaps someone else has another suggestion.