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Subject: Status: Variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to "on"
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retitle 63318 Variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to "on"
reassign 63318 emacs
submitter 63318 Peter Oliver
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tag 63318 patch
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Document that variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to "on".
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> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 21:21:50 +0100 (BST)
> From: Peter Oliver
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> Document that variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to "on".
Wouldn't it be better to instead fix this, so that the default is
always "on"?
Why doesn't Ediff turn on ediff-auto-refine for all terminals?
AFAICT, it only needs faces (basically, colors), and we support that
on all terminals nowadays? So I think we should simply change the
default value (which will also solve bug#63317). Or what am I
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On Sat, 6 May 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 21:21:50 +0100 (BST)
>> From: Peter Oliver
>>
>> Document that variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to "on".
>
> Wouldn't it be better to instead fix this, so that the default is
> always "on"?
>
> Why doesn't Ediff turn on ediff-auto-refine for all terminals?
> AFAICT, it only needs faces (basically, colors), and we support that
> on all terminals nowadays? So I think we should simply change the
> default value (which will also solve bug#63317). Or what am I
> missing?
I assumed that this complication was present because there exist displays on which auto-refinement isn’t desirable.
If that’s no-longer the case, then great, simplifying the default to always be “on” certainly sounds like the best way to go to me. Attached is a patch to do that instead.
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> Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 11:26:47 +0100 (BST)
> From: Peter Oliver
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> > Why doesn't Ediff turn on ediff-auto-refine for all terminals?
> > AFAICT, it only needs faces (basically, colors), and we support that
> > on all terminals nowadays? So I think we should simply change the
> > default value (which will also solve bug#63317). Or what am I
> > missing?
>
> I assumed that this complication was present because there exist displays on which auto-refinement isn’t desirable.
>
> If that’s no-longer the case, then great, simplifying the default to always be “on” certainly sounds like the best way to go to me. Attached is a patch to do that instead.
Thanks, installed on the master branch (after applying the necessary
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