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diff-mode frustrates attempt to correct corrupted diff file.

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Message #11 received at 17522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 17522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17522: diff-mode frustrates attempt to correct corrupted diff
 file.
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:54:02 -0400

>     @@ -3155,0 +3160,0 @

> .  This is surely a bug.  The workaround seems to be to use Fundamental
> Mode.

Maybe not a bug, but a misfeature: the ",0" is probably because the first
line after the @...@ is empty, which normally "can't" be part of a hunk,
so this empty line is taken as an "end of hunk".
If you add a space on that line, the count should be updated again and
start looking more sane.


        Stefan

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