>>>> "Darryl" == Darryl Okahata
<darrylo(a)sr.hp.com> writes: 
    Darryl>
http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/9809/msg00431.html
Hello Darryl, please send patches to xemacs-patches, otherwise they
may never make it into XEmacs.  It seems we were lucky this time.
Also, I switched over from
diff -c
to
diff -u
a while back, when I was convinced by more experienced XEmacs hackers
that it makes smaller and better readable patches.  Sun's diff does
not support -u, but GNU diff does.
Hence I've
(custom-set-variables
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 '(ediff-custom-diff-program "/opt/gnu/bin/diff")
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 '(ediff-custom-diff-options "-u")
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 '(vc-diff-switches nil t)
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 '(ediff-diff-program "/opt/gnu/bin/diff")
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 '(cvs-diff-program "/opt/gnu/bin/diff" t)
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 '(emerge-diff-program "/opt/gnu/bin/diff" t)
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in my .emacs
<HINT to Mike Sperber>
AFAIK, dired does not allow for customization of it's diff program.
</HINT to Mike Sperber>
I almost always use cvs diff (C-x v =) on files (or even
directories!).  To diff sources not under CVS, I use ediff.
HTH,
Adrian
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