GNU bug report logs - #61396
diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines

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Message #53 received at 61396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 61396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:03:59 -0700

i'm not sure that will work with alternate presentatin f difflll.
what woul dbe good is for the internal diffing to notate not merely
additions and deleteions but also absence of addionts.  a marker that
something will be deleted. no matter where.


On 2/12/23, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> wrote:
>> this is a bug against emacs diff-mode.
>>
>> diff is not responsible for diff-mode colors.  diff-mode is.
>
> You can use such a heuristics that when the region with deleted lines
> borders the region with added lines this means that both regions show
> the changed lines.  So adjacent regions in the hunk = changed lines,
> disconnected regions of added or deleted lines = separate
> additions/deletions.
>


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