Re: fine differences for entire diff in diff mode

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 11 Jul 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I know that i can do fine differences for a hunk.
>> is there a command to do fine differences for the entire buffer?
>
> I just pushed to Emacs's `master` branch a patch which makes all diffs
> highlight with refinement automatically.  It's not quite what you asked for,
> in the sense that there's no separate command and it doesn't refine the
> whole diff (it's only done on-the-fly as the various hunks get
> displayed, thanks to jit-lock), but I think there's a good chance it
> will cover your needs ;-)
>
>
>         Stefan

This change is extremely irritiating. It is fine to introduce a new
feature, but is a regression from previous behaviour and should not be
on by default.

    AndyM