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Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:40:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:
|> Alex Schroeder <address@hidden> writes:
|>
|> >> Ediff is designed to parse the output of diff and then present it in
|> >> different ways.
|>
|> Concerning presentation there isn't that much to change
|>
|> >> What you are proposing is a kind of "incremental diff", if I
|> >> understand it correctly. I think it would require a major
|> >> generalization of the existing code to do that.
|>
|> Yes, it is kind of "incremental"; let's consider these variants:
|>
|> ->>Everyone in the world is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
copies
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
|> ^^^^
|> <<-
|>
|> ->>Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
|> of the license document, but changing it is not allowed.
|> ~~~
|> <<-
|>
|> Ediff sees only 1 difference, and the user may ask for a
|> `ediff-switch-to-line-mode' option able to make chunks of the hunks:
Emerge has a command to split a difference into two hunks
(emerge-split-difference). I have used this quite often before I
switched to ediff.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/03/16
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Carlo Traverso, 2002/03/16
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Michael Kifer, 2002/03/16
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Alex Schroeder, 2002/03/16
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/03/16
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Carlo Traverso, 2002/03/17
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Michael Kifer, 2002/03/17
- Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Carlo Traverso, 2002/03/17
Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/17