Re: Feature request

[Matzi Kratzi]

The Other SW that I tested gave the user the possibility to set
several pairs of sync lines.

/Mats

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I really like ediff and almost always prefer it.
>> There is however one feature that I really would like it to gain (or
>> really would like to know how it can already be done):
>> One of the for-money-competitors gives the user the possibility to
>> help the tool by pointing to sync lines in the buffers.
>> That way the diff can become much better.
>
>> Is this possible already?
>
> I don't think Ediff currently supports it.  It shouldn't be terribly
> hard to add support for it (basically a sync line would split the region
> such that the text before and the text after are passed to separate
> invocations of `diff').
>
>
>         Stefan