Re: is diff-fixup-modifs supposed to work on regular diff?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have been trying to edit diffs, which are in regular <> style, and
> run diff-fixup-modifs.  My goal is to programmatically get rid of
> empty hunks and to renumber edited hunks.

> For this particular purpose, which is not a one-off that can be fixed
> manually but an ongoing need, I cannot use the otherwise superior
> unified or context diff.

diff-fixup-modifs (and most of diff-mode's editing functions such as
the killing of hunks) only works for context diffs, because it does not
preserve line numbers precisely.


        Stefan