Re: Syntactic fontification of diff hunks

[Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

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Looks nice.

Where you supposed to attach the patch too? :)

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 5:42 PM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

> Most version control sites like gitlab/github highlight syntax
> in code snippets inside diff hunks, for example:
>
> https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/2834/commits/95cacde4fcccc95c25d6fb9988d2aa097193f8c0
>
> This is very helpful when looking at code changes.  I missed this feature
> in Emacs
> for a long time.  This is why I asked a question about a possible
> implementation in
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/43957/syntactic-fontification-of-diff-hunks
> but no one had an answer.
>
> Then I realized that much simpler would be just to use the same approach
> implemented by diff-mode refinement, i.e. to take each diff hunk one by
> one, and like the diff refinement highlights more fine-grained changes,
> do the same for syntax highlighting according to the language in
> compared files/commits.
>
> You can see the result at the following screenshot:
>
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Kaushal Modi

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