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Re: is diff-fixup-modifs supposed to work on regular diff?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: is diff-fixup-modifs supposed to work on regular diff? |
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Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:58:55 -0400 |
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> I have been trying to edit diffs, which are in regular <> style, and
> run diff-fixup-modifs. My goal is to programmatically get rid of
> empty hunks and to renumber edited hunks.
> For this particular purpose, which is not a one-off that can be fixed
> manually but an ongoing need, I cannot use the otherwise superior
> unified or context diff.
diff-fixup-modifs (and most of diff-mode's editing functions such as
the killing of hunks) only works for context diffs, because it does not
preserve line numbers precisely.
Stefan