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26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace buffer contents

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25355 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25355: 26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace
 buffer contents
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:17:38 +0000

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Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> schrieb am So., 7. Mai 2017 um
20:21 Uhr:

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>> P.S. Doesn't GNU Diff have code to do this?
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> Sure, but it's not a library. libmba was the only library that I've found
> so far with a usable interface (i.e. that doesn't assume that the input
> sequences are byte arrays).
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>

Apparently I didn't look closely enough: Diffutils uses an implementation
of the Myers algorithm from Gnulib, which is customizable enough to fit our
needs. I've attached a patch that uses Gnulib.

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