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Re: makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer |
Date: |
04 Dec 2002 15:35:12 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Ediff has some functionality like this -- it `refines' thunks it gets
> > from diff by doing its own diff algorithm at the character level, and
> > can indicate via faces which parts of thunks are important.
>
> IIRC, Ediff does this at the _word_ level, not at the character level.
A bit of testing shows that you're right.
> The only problem with this solution is that breaking a line into a list
> of words is non-trivial due to m17n considerations, especially if the
> buffer mixes several character sets. IIRC, for that reason, Ediff uses
> some ad-hoc method instead of relying on syntax categories of characters.
That's OK; for the purpose Richard was asking about, the main thing is
that it ignores (or rather, de-emphasizes) whitespace-only changes,
which should work fine even if word-splitting isn't exactly `correct.'
-Miles
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"I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task."
--Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research
Re: makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2002/12/02