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Re: Function to parse a "diff" command line to load both files into buff
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unfrostedpoptart |
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Re: Function to parse a "diff" command line to load both files into buffers and ediff them |
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Mon, 21 May 2018 10:50:24 -0700 (PDT) |
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G2/1.0 |
On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 10:29:54 AM UTC-7, David Karr wrote:
> Quite often I find myself in a situation where I have a "diff" command that
> was run in a shell buffer, and I want to "transfer" that into ediff, by
> simply loading both of the files specified on the diff command line and then
> running ediff to compare them. I could probably do this with a keyboard
> macro, but this just seems like something that someone must have thought of
> doing before. I tried paging through the many functions that begin with
> "ediff-", but I didn't see anything that sounds like what I describe. I'm
> using version "2.81.5".
I'd really like this too. I'm not a great e-lisp coder but I'd guess this
wouldn't be too hard using emacs client.