Re: Best way to get hang of an elisp file?

[Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> they /do/ instead of how they are implemented, I'm curious whether
>> there exists something like "outline mode", hiding everything but the
>
> Yes, it's called outline-minor-mode ;-)
> For Elisp, I additionally use:
>
> (add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (when (and outline-minor-mode (derived-mode-p 'emacs-lisp-mode))
>               (hide-sublevels 1000))))
>
> which starts outline-minor-mode by hiding all the bodies of functions.
> I also use `reveal-mode' which automatically unhides the bodies when you
> try to move the cursor into them (so you don't need to remember the key
> sequences to use for opening/closing elements).
>
>
>         Stefan

Thanks.

I would like to compare the two elisp libraries, BBDB 2 and BBDB 3, for
copyright purposes and would appreciate any other suggestions that'll
aid a plebe such as myself in the endeavor.

How to differentiate, for instance, Jamie's work from Roland's work?

No diff list like GNU Emacs has?