From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here (was: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031858.m23IwToH009344@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803041839.m24Idmis008291@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052150.m25Loonc011429@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205096031 1611 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 20:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: Reiner Steib Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 21:54:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYSXB-0005ss-Tt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:54:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYSWd-0002HL-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYSWY-0002GN-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYSWY-0002Fz-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYSWY-0002Fw-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYSWY-00042b-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYSWX-00018V-7M; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:53:37 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Reiner Steib on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:57:02 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91912 Archived-At: When I produce a diff before committing a change, I often want to make sure the no unintended/other changes crept in. I expect to see exactly the diffs, not some disturbing additional lines. How do you check that they are exactly the same diffs? Do you use M-x compare-windows? When that comes to the end of the diffs in both buffers, the fact that one has a note saying "end of diffs" won't make it harder for you to tell that the two are identical. I almost never want to save compilation output buffers (or include it in a mail message), but I often do for diffs. I don't think that end-of-diffs message will do any harm when you save or mail the diffs. In an email there will usually be other text both above and below the diffs, in any case. Adding one line of more text below the diffs won't change the situation much. Additionally, in compilation mode, it is more clear that this line is not part of the output because the bold words are in green or red: We could put colors into the notice in the diff buffer just as we do in compilation mode.