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Re: how to patch diff into source code?
From: |
Xah Lee |
Subject: |
Re: how to patch diff into source code? |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:30:12 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
it turns out the patch is corrupted by email.
Xah
On Jan 20, 6:08 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> could anyone help me with a diff/patch question?
>
> i got the following patch:
>
> --- lisp\textmodes\css-mode.el.orig 2008-03-01 20:28:16.000000000
> +0100
> +++ lisp\textmodes\css-mode.el 2009-01-19 09:14:55.138125000 +0100
> @@ -369,5 +369,5 @@
> (forward-comment (- (point-max)))
> ;; FIXME: We should also skip punctuation.
> - (not (memq (char-before) '(?\; ?\
> {)))))))))))
> + (not (or (bobp) (memq (char-before) '(?\;
> ?\{))))))))))))
>
> (defun css-forward-sexp (n)
>
> how do i use diff (or other?) to merge it into source?
> i've never used diff for patching.
>
> i just found and used menu Tools‣Apply Patch, but then i got
>
> patching file /Users/xah/web/emacs/css-mode.el
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 8: ?\{))))))))))))
>
> is it something i did wrong or the patch?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄