Re: [PATCH] diff: add ruby funcname pattern

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
>
> If you're going to get into anonymous code blocks, you're going to have a
> really tough time deciding which blocks are interesting and which aren't.
> And as you stated before, without a stack-based approach, this could really
> fall apart, as anonymous blocks are (almost) always going to be inside a
> method.

I was just looking for a libxdiff issue tracker but I couldn't find
one, so I guess I'll ask the author directly about the possibility to
implement such a thing. The matchit plugin for vim seems to manage
(even user-defined) code blocks very well, even for multi-state blocks
(if ... else ... end), using regexps; so maybe a reimplementation in C
for libxdiff could be a solution. Of course, one wonders how much
slower such an approach would be as opposed to the current "look back
until the first matching line" solution ...

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta