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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fine differences for entire diff in diff mode
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:51:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz1y3ehlnqd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvr2k97stb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org

On Wed 11 Jul 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I know that i can do fine differences for a hunk.
>> is there a command to do fine differences for the entire buffer?
>
> I just pushed to Emacs's `master` branch a patch which makes all diffs
> highlight with refinement automatically.  It's not quite what you asked for,
> in the sense that there's no separate command and it doesn't refine the
> whole diff (it's only done on-the-fly as the various hunks get
> displayed, thanks to jit-lock), but I think there's a good chance it
> will cover your needs ;-)
>
>
>         Stefan

This change is extremely irritiating. It is fine to introduce a new
feature, but is a regression from previous behaviour and should not be
on by default.

    AndyM




  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-11 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-19 20:02 fine differences for entire diff in diff mode Samuel Wales
2018-07-05 18:55 ` Samuel Wales
2018-07-06 16:06 ` Keith Waclena
2018-07-06 21:33   ` Samuel Wales
2018-07-11 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-11 16:51   ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2018-07-15 13:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-21 23:39   ` Samuel Wales

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