From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tweaking magit/diff mode to be more helpful in text editing Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 09:55:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20160531075538.GA25176@tuxteam.de> References: <87shwyvi0w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464681412 8646 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2016 07:56:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 07:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 09:56:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eXg-0002r7-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 09:56:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eXb-0005La-4e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 03:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eWq-0005Iy-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 03:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eWk-0006E1-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 03:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:50112 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eWk-0006DY-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 03:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eWY-0006cc-9x; Tue, 31 May 2016 09:55:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87shwyvi0w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110144 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:49:35PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: [...] > What I'd really like is to find a way [...] of only showing the > actual edits, not the filling [...] You mean a diff which works at whole paragraph level instead of at line level, as if the whole paragraph were a big honkin' line? The "word processors" seem to "see" texts in this way. With Emacs we are in a somewhat schizophrenic spot. You might try actually having one-line paragraphs and use visual-line mode with word wrapping; be warned that many an Emacs algorithm doesn't like extremely long lines (they work, but they let you notice their distaste :-) regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAldNQ3oACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbeUgCfb4i59Ti/ufPt7muCRScte0Z3 /V4An2PGVpO+m3RpWtfcUl6rYP9LlD2N =FS1V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----