From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to highlight fine differences in Diff mode? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:16:53 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133901656 15460 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 20:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 21:40:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjY9-00016c-IG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:36:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjYL-0001La-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjK8-0002QC-9Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjK5-0002Oz-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjK4-0002Oj-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EjjKn-0003a6-Sk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjHk-0002h5-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:19:36 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:19:36 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:19:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31714 Archived-At: I love Ediff. I mean, I really, really love it. But sometimes I have to compare extremely large files, larger than Emacs maximum buffer size. So I simply run diff and redirect its output to a .diff file, which is easily small enought to visit and navigate in Diff mode. What I'd like at that point is a command to highlight the changed text within the current hunk, just like "*" does in Ediff: ,----[ C-h k * ] | * runs the command ediff-make-or-kill-fine-diffs | which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `ediff-util'. | (ediff-make-or-kill-fine-diffs ARG) | | Compute fine diffs. With negative prefix arg, kill fine diffs. | In both cases, operates on the current difference region. `---- Is there any way to take advantage of the Ediff machinery inside Diff mode? -- Kevin Rodgers