Re: diff-mode misinterprets empty lines.

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> In an effort to clear FOR-RELEASE, here is a simple-minded attempt to
>> deal with this. It seems to fix the original problem at least.
>
> It is problematic when you try to apply a hunk via C-c C-a because any
> empty line following your hunk (e.g. the last hunk in a C-x v =) will be
> taken as being part of the hunk and C-c C-a will think that the original
> text was just missing a newline and will add it (as a result of its
> fuzzy matching feature).

Oh dear. Would it suffice to back up over empty lines at the end of a
unified diff? Ie treat empty-lines as part of a hunk unless they are
at the very end of the diff?