Re: how to highlight fine differences in Diff mode?

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <mailman.217.1136599234.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>    >I don't have an answer for you, unfortunately. I do have some code that
>    >improves the highlighting of regular `diff' output slightly:
>    >http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/diff-mode-.el, but it
>    >doesn't do what you're asking.
>
>    1: "diff-mode": never heard of it.  Yes, there is one in the lisp
>       subdirectory, at least of 22.0.50.1 (old) cvs.
>
>The library I mentioned was diff-mode-.el, not diff-mode.el. The former is a
>minor enhancement to the latter. The latter has recently been updated in
>CVS, and is now very similar to the former. If you are using CVS Emacs, you
>can use just the latter. If you are using Emacs 21, you might want to use
>both.
>
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Thanks so much for the explanation!  Makes it all clear.

Maybe edit that (excellent) explanation into the file (if it's
  not already there -- haven't yet grabbed diff-mode-.el).

Thanks!

David