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Kei Minagawa
Kei Minagawa

Reputation: 4501

How can I display changed line in Emacs?

Some text editors can display changed line by default. But in Emacs, how?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1347

Answers (2)

d5884
d5884

Reputation: 906

The minor mode highlight-changes-mode displays text changes.

ADDITION: I wrote some code of fringe support for highlight-changes-mode.

(eval-after-load "hilit-chg"
  '(progn
     (defvar highlight-fringe-mark 'filled-square
       "The fringe bitmap name marked at changed line.
Should be selected from `fringe-bitmaps'.")

     (defadvice hilit-chg-make-ov (after hilit-chg-add-fringe activate)
       (mapc (lambda (ov)
           (if (overlay-get ov 'hilit-chg)
           (let ((fringe-anchor (make-string 1 ?x)))
             (put-text-property 0 1 'display
                    (list 'left-fringe highlight-fringe-mark)
                    fringe-anchor)
             (overlay-put ov 'before-string fringe-anchor))
         ))
         (overlays-at (ad-get-arg 1))))))

fringed
(source: gyazo.com)

ADDITION: To remove highlights on save time, try it:

(add-hook 'after-save-hook
          (lambda ()
            (when highlight-changes-mode
              (save-restriction
                (widen)
                (highlight-changes-remove-highlight (point-min) (point-max))))))

Upvotes: 11

jpkotta
jpkotta

Reputation: 9417

I assume you're interested in changes between the buffer and the saved file. I usually use diff-buffer-with-file for that, because I don't need it too often.

I also use diff-hl mode, which shows changed lines of the saved file vs. the last commit in a version control system. It's available in Melpa.

Here's my config, which changes the indicators to '+', '-', and '!':

(setq diff-hl-fringe-bmp-function 'diff-hl-fringe-bmp-from-type)
(global-diff-hl-mode 1)

Though you didn't ask about it, I'll also mention that vc can easily diff files that are under version control with C-x v = (current file) or C-x v D (entire project).

Upvotes: 3

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