Re: diff-yank-handler

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> diff-mode.el contains the following which isn't used anywhere.
> I suppose this is due to the "FIXME" comment below.

> What need to be done to complete this?

I think what needs to be done is to redefine the kill functions in diff-mode
buffers so as to add a yank-handler to the killed text.

> I would suggest that we could add a 5th element to the yank-handler
> indicating that the string covered by this yank-handler should
> be combined with the next yank-handler.

It may be a good alternative solution, but I'm not sure what that means.


        Stefan