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Re: how to highlight fine differences in Diff mode?
From: |
David Combs |
Subject: |
Re: how to highlight fine differences in Diff mode? |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:59:19 +0000 (UTC) |
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.
>
...
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