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bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across fr
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:20:07 -0800 (PST) |
> Thank you, Martin. This is exactly what we need.
Looks good to me. Please apply it. But "matching points"
should be "match positions" - "point" can be confusing.
Possible enhancements, but not required to close this
enhancement request:
1. I do still think it would be good to provide more info
in the message.
2. As I proposed in the past, I think it would be good to
(as I do) bind comparison commands to the same prefix.
I bind them to prefix `C-=' (just one possibility):
C-= b is ediff-buffers
C-= d is diff
C-= e is ediff-files
C-= f is ediff-files
C-= w is compare-windows-repeat
3. `compare-windows-repeat' is just a repeatable version
of `compare-windows', so you can repeat it using, for
example, `C-= w w w w w'. Very handy, especially
given the improvements you've just made.
Maybe consider doing #3 even if you don't want to do #2.
I use the definition below, but you can do it another way
(e.g., using `set-transient-map').
I use this helper function all the time. It makes it
trivial to make a repeatable command:
(defun repeat-command (command)
"Repeat COMMAND."
(let ((repeat-message-function 'ignore))
(setq last-repeatable-command command)
(repeat nil)))
So for example:
(defun compare-windows-repeat (ignore-whitespace)
"Compare text in current window with text in next window.
You can repeat this by hitting the last key again...
See `compare-windows' - this is the same, except repeatable."
(interactive "P")
(require 'repeat)
(repeat-command 'compare-windows))
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, (continued)
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Juri Linkov, 2014/11/25
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Drew Adams, 2014/11/25
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Juri Linkov, 2014/11/25
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Drew Adams, 2014/11/25
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Juri Linkov, 2014/11/26
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Drew Adams, 2014/11/26
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Juri Linkov, 2014/11/27
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, martin rudalics, 2014/11/28
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Drew Adams, 2014/11/28
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Juri Linkov, 2014/11/28
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Juri Linkov, 2014/11/28
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Drew Adams, 2014/11/28
- bug#19170: 25.0.50; enhancement request: `compare-windows' use across frames, Drew Adams, 2014/11/28