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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: is diff-fixup-modifs supposed to work on regular diff?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:58:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9kpkk84.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2990.1376162656.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

> I have been trying to edit diffs, which are in regular <> style, and
> run diff-fixup-modifs.  My goal is to programmatically get rid of
> empty hunks and to renumber edited hunks.

> For this particular purpose, which is not a one-off that can be fixed
> manually but an ongoing need, I cannot use the otherwise superior
> unified or context diff.

diff-fixup-modifs (and most of diff-mode's editing functions such as
the killing of hunks) only works for context diffs, because it does not
preserve line numbers precisely.


        Stefan


       reply	other threads:[~2013-08-11  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2990.1376162656.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-11  2:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-19  3:46   ` is diff-fixup-modifs supposed to work on regular diff? Samuel Wales
2013-08-10 19:24 Samuel Wales

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