From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The "opposite of ediff" Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:33:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351431231 22571 80.91.229.3 (28 Oct 2012 13:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 28 14:33:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TST03-0001H4-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:33:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSSzv-0005l5-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSSzs-0005l0-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSSzq-0005cj-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:58381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSSzq-0005be-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:33:46 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu0/O+LET/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="203016434" Original-Received: from 206-248-177-19.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.177.19]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 28 Oct 2012 09:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C112059415; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:33:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:43:50 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154549 Archived-At: > I often am trying to pick out common regions from multiple files. This > cries out for the "opposite of ediff": something that will walk me > through the common areas of files that are substantially different and > show them to me with their differing surrounding context. Ediff turns > out to be pretty bad at this. I can generate a list of common regions > using simian, but what I really need is an interactive browser. Any > ideas? Is this a problem you've already solved? If you find a Free Software tool that does such comparisons, we'd be happy to include some support for it, Stefan