GNU bug report logs - #63318
Variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to "on"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>

Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 20:23:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 63318-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
Cc: 63318-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63318: Variable ediff-auto-refine doesn't always default to
 "on"
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 17:02:14 +0300
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 11:26:47 +0100 (BST)
> From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
> cc: 63318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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
fix).

Closing the bug.




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