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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Ruijie Yu <ruijie@netyu.xyz>
Cc: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Diff between customized value
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 19:12:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edn7ynsk.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB081681-563D-4F1A-890B-C7069BF03998@netyu.xyz>


On 2023-05-20, at 14:55, Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> On May 20, 2023, at 20:36, Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> How do I compare a customized variable value with its original value?
>> When I `describe-variable' I get "value" and "original value", sometimes
>> it's hard to see the difference. Is there a quick way to diff them?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Daniel Fleischer
>> 
>> 
>
> I think you are looking for “sexp diff”.  I recall seeing one on [search engine], but it wasn’t feature complete.  Maybe you will have better luck this time. 

Difftastic (https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/) might be useful.

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



      reply	other threads:[~2023-05-23 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-20 12:34 Diff between customized value Daniel Fleischer
2023-05-20 12:55 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-05-23 17:12   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]

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