Re: help: adapting your library to new M-x compile

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Daniel Pfeiffer) writes:
> Yes, but it could use the text-properties compile sets, for its hint.
> It would only need different goto commands.  Mine could be tweaked such
> that yours could hook in.

This would not be an improvement in the way diff-mode works now (it
would be more complex, and probably less reliable).

> I guess the reason it's there is that your parser doesn't work on the
> fly.  That's where my idea to base this on compile, i.e. font-lock,
> comes from.  Then it'll work both on a diff file and on an ongoing
> command.  The faces could be adapted easily to be like old diff-mode.
> As happened in compile this would mean eliminating a good part of what's
> there in diff-mode as well as almost all of diff.

Are you really sure you understand how diff-mode works?

It's basically entirely dynamic -- it calculates almost everything at
the point where you give a command that needs the information; it's
quite practical (and in fact common, for me) to edit diff files in
place, and diff-mode will use whatever the result is.

-Miles
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