Re: diff adapted for new M-x compile

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:38:57AM +0100, Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:
>       * lisp/diff.el (diff): use diff-mode instead of compile
>       (diff-switches): new function
>       (diff-with-other-file, diff-with-file, diff-with-auto-save-file)
>       (diff-with-backup-file): new commands
>       (diff-regexp-alist, diff-old-file, diff-new-file): deleted vars
>       (diff-parse-differences, diff-process-setup): deleted functions

Those new function names (`diff-with-...') are quite confusing -- the salient
point seems to be that they operate on the buffer rather than on files, so
the function names should include this information.

For instance, `diff-buffer-with-file' could diff a buffer against a file, or
something like that.

-Miles
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