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Four questions about ediff
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jonetsu |
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Four questions about ediff |
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Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:59:42 -0400 |
Hello,
1) Deeper comparison ?
emacs ediff compare directories will list directories that are the
same. Doing a '=h' followed by 'x' will tag and remove those
directories. Nevertheless, going through the remaining directories
will also uncover directories that have no differences, on which '=h'
and 'x' will remove all files.
Is there a way to actually remove all possible same directories in one
sweep without having to go through the remaining ones thinking that
they must contain something different when they are not ? This can get
tedious over tens of directories.
For instance a main directory has 1277 files in 113 sub directories.
Amongst all that are 15 files that have differences. Would it be
possible to get a listing of those 15 files or more likely, a listing
of only those folders in which those files were found to be different ?
And when subsequently going into one of these fodlers, to only see
what's different, without having to do '=h' and 'x' again ?
2) Use defaults for (some) prompts ?
Is it possible to handle automatically (set defaults) the following
prompts. Assuming a default of no regex for the last prompt and 'y' to
the others:
Quit this Ediff session & show containing session group ?
Quit this session group ?
Compare subdirectories recursively ?
Filter filename through regular expression ?
3) Accumulated diffed files in the buffer-selection
Is it possible to close diffed files when a session group is closed ? A
large amount of files are listed/opened after 30 minutes of using
ediff, closing them in the buffer-selection is a bit tedious. As well
as related ediff buffers that are still lingering around after a diff
was made and closed.
4) Use a regex to focus on files to diff ?
Is it possible to to a diff of two directories with a focus based on a
text regex ? For instance, diffing 34 sub directories but taking into
account only the files that have the string "MODS" for doing the diff ?
It would be great to be able to do those points above as it would speed
up greatly doing lengthy diffs.
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