Re: diff-mode

[rusi]

On Dec 12, 4:44 pm, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other day I was preparing a talk with a collegue on revision
> control, and we've also show how to use basic diff and patch.
>
> Even if most of the work was done in emacs, we used vim to show the diff
> file, since it's much more colorful.
>
> Anyway after I solved customizing some faces
>
>  '(diff-added ((t (:inherit diff-changed :background "black" :foreground 
> "Yellow"))))
>  '(diff-changed ((nil (:foreground "medium purple"))))
>  '(diff-header ((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark)) 
> (:background "grey22" :foreground "red" :height 1.2))))
>  '(diff-indicator-removed ((t (:inherit diff-removed))))
>  '(diff-removed ((t (:background "black" :foreground "indian red"))))
>
> Now it's even too much contrast :D
> But then I thought, wouldn't it be possible to show the normal syntax
> highlighting of the given mode and use some background/font style to
> differentiate what's to add/remove?
>
> I think even if it's a diff code would look more clear and nice if it's
> in the "right" colors...

Thanks Andrea for this... But its not diff-... out here but ediff-...
(I am on emacs 23.1.1)