GNU bug report logs - #10309
24.0.92; [wishlist] Add an option to disable "auto-refining" while moving between hunks in diff mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: bug#10309: 24.0.92; [wishlist] Add an option to disable "auto-refining" while moving between hunks in diff mode
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:53:38 +0100

>> 1) I'd like to control whether that minor mode is enabled by default
>> after invoking the `diff' command.  Currently it is, and I'd like it
>> wasn't.
>
> What about
>
>  (setq-default diff-auto-refine-mode nil)
>
> in your .emacs?

I thought it too, and it seems to work, but I saw the docstring of
that variable, and it seem to advise against changing the variable at
user-level:

  Non-nil if Diff-Auto-Refine mode is enabled.
  Use the command `diff-auto-refine-mode' to change this variable.

Why?

-- 
Dani Moncayo
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