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bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:56:36 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> - Second, `diff-refine-hunk` highlights the text actually added and the
> text actually removed within modified lines, but not the place where
> text is added/removed in the other version.
> [ As pointed out by Juri (thanks for Cc'ing me, BTW) this is linked to
> a comment I left in `smerge--refine-highlight-change`, tho that
> comment was thinking of a slightly different feature (namely the
> ability to jump from one version to the other, or the addition of
> a "phantom" cursor highlighting the corresponding place in the other
> version). ]
> Here the problem is mostly that we don't have a standard way to
> highlight a "place" (which is something that occupies 0 pixels on
> screen). But we could follow the (not unanimously appreciated) lead
> of `rectangle-mode` and insert a thin (highlighted) visual space to
> mark those places. That should be not too hard to do, but it would
> have to be optional I think because it'd tend to break alignment, so
> some people may not find the upside significant enough to justify
> the downsides.
Ediff highlights the first character of the context. Logically
this is not correct, but probably Ediff predates the ability of
using a thin space like in `rectangle-mode`. Or maybe because
it doesn't work on ttys.