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RE: faq.texi
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
RE: faq.texi |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:03:19 +0000 (GMT) |
Hi, Drew!
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Drew Adams wrote:
> >Maybe I'm weird, but I do tend to use C-y reasonably often in a
> >specific circumstance: when i want to see how well two regions of
> >text match, I go to the beginning of one, and hit C-y until the search
> >fails; this could be done with C-w too but it's a lot more tedious for
> >big regions.
> I do this, too - more precisely, C-y through
> one region until the regexp highlighting stops on the other.
>Is this mostly (only?) useful for different areas of the same buffer (since
>you mention isearch highlighting other areas)? I assume you didn't literally
>mean "region" here, but just "section" of text, no?
>For comparing text sections in two different buffers, I usually select them,
>`C-x n n', and use ediff on them. For sections in the same buffer, I
>sometimes paste one section into a new buffer and do the same.
>Maybe your technique would be handier (quicker) in that case, at least to
>find a first difference. But IIUC, the two sections would need to be visible
>simultaneously - e.g. near each other or in different windows.
I often use it in files.diff, when I just can't see what's different
between the two versions. Often it's things like a space at EOL, or a
leading TAB becoming TAB + 2 spaces, and suchlike. C-y in isearch is
good for this.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
- Re: faq.texi, (continued)
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- Re: faq.texi, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/02/09
- Re: faq.texi, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/09
- Re: faq.texi, Miles Bader, 2006/02/09
- Re: faq.texi, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/10
- Re: faq.texi, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/14
- Re: faq.texi, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/14
- Re: faq.texi, Miles Bader, 2006/02/14
- Re: faq.texi, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/02/15
- RE: faq.texi, Drew Adams, 2006/02/15
- RE: faq.texi,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: faq.texi, Miles Bader, 2006/02/15
- RE: faq.texi, Drew Adams, 2006/02/15
- Re: faq.texi, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/15
- Re: faq.texi, Miles Bader, 2006/02/16
- Re: faq.texi, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/16
- Re: faq.texi, Miles Bader, 2006/02/16
- Re: faq.texi, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/17
- Re: faq.texi, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/18
- Re: faq.texi, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/17
- Re: faq.texi, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/02/16