Re: [bug-grep] Re: [patch #3644] --initial-tab and 3 newly colorized items

[Julian Foad]

Elliott Hughes wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2005, at 07:46, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > I also think that the --show*function options should eventually go in.
>
> are you sure? diff does a really poor job of that. something like 
> Exuberant ctags can do a much better job, for far more languages. why 
> not pipe the output of diff/grep into a script that adds the annotations?

I tend to agree.  It's undeniably useful to some people to have such a feature 
available at the touch of a single option letter, but implementing and 
supporting such a feature which doesn't actually work very well overall is 
quite a high cost.

> i have such a script for annotating patches, if anyone's interested.

Yes please.  I currently use "diff -p" for generating patches, and then have a 
script to extract a list of the functions touched to make a log message 
template.  It gets it wrong quite often, so I have to edit the result by hand. 
 I'd like to use your better solution.

- Julian