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Re: Function to parse a "diff" command line to load both files into buff
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Bob Newell |
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Re: Function to parse a "diff" command line to load both files into buffers and ediff them |
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Fri, 11 May 2018 07:31:17 -1000 |
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:15 AM, KARR, DAVID <dk068x@att.com> wrote:
> Quite often I find myself in a situation where I have a "diff" command that
> was run in a shell buffer, and I want to "transfer" that into ediff, by
> simply loading both of the files specified on the diff command line and then
> running ediff to compare them. I could probably do this with a keyboard
> macro, but this just seems like something that someone must have thought of
> doing before. I tried paging through the many functions that begin with
> "ediff-", but I didn't see anything that sounds like what I describe. I'm
> using version "2.81.5".
Just wondering why you wouldn't use ediff in the first place. But if
you really want, you could write a small function that does what you
say.
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Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
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