Re: fine differences for entire diff in diff mode

[Samuel Wales]

thank you!

it looks like you even did error handling and progress report.


On 7/6/18, Keith Waclena <keith@lib.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> i know that i can do fine differences for a hunk.
>>
>> is there a command to do fine differences for the entire buffer?
>>
>> thanks.
>
> I wanted the same thing and couldn't find it, so I wrote this:
>
> (defun kw-diff-highlights ()
>   "Plow through all the hunks in this diff, which has the side-effect of
> refining
> the micro-differences in each."
>   (save-excursion
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (let ((pr (make-progress-reporter "Refining diff hunks... ")))
>       (condition-case err
>           (while t                      ; loop exited when diff-hunk-next
> raises an error at EOB
>             (progress-reporter-update pr)
>             (diff-hunk-next))
>         (user-error nil)
>         (error (message "kw-diff-highlights: unexpected error: %S" err)))
>       (progress-reporter-done pr))))
>
> (add-hook 'diff-mode-hook 'kw-diff-highlights)
>
>
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