bug#18128: Diff-mode doesn't refine hunks automatically

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Actually, it seems it is not enough. My usecase: I open a fairly large diff file with many changes like

-bla bla bla a long line were some word was changed or maybe two
+bla bla bla a long line where some word was changed or maybe two

I want to be able to immediately see the changes, without reading whole lines and certainly without visiting the hunks. When Emacs highlights the change (there is only one above), I see it right away. Otherwise I have to scan the lines with my eyes, which is tedious and error-prone. Of course I can also hit C-c C-b on each hunk, but it feels like some sort of work I'd prefer Emacs do for me.

Paul

On 28 July 2014 16:39, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com> wrote:

It is enough. Then please add a reference to it to documentation of diff-refine-hunk, I wasn't even aware of that mode.

Paul

On 28 July 2014 16:28, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:59:12 +0200
> From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com>
>
> Diff-mode should just refine hunks automatically when visiting a buffer. If
> it is a performance concern, there should be some customization option for
> it and/or this could be done lazily.
>
> Chunk refining is just too useful to not have.

Why isn't diff-auto-refine-mode enough?