[PATCH v3 0/2] userdiff: extend Scheme support to cover other Lisp dialects
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Scott L. Burson via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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- Jan 15, 2026, 23:18 UTC
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Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, and other dialects have some top-level forms, most importantly 'defun', that are not matched by the current Scheme pattern. Also, it is common in these dialects, when defining user macros intended as top-level forms, to prefix their names with "def" instead of "define"; such forms are also not currently matched. Some such forms don't even begin with "def".
On the other hand, it is an established formatting convention in the Lisp community that only top-level forms start at the left margin. So matching any unindented line starting with an open parenthesis is an acceptable heuristic; false positives will be rare.
However, there are also cases where notionally top-level forms are grouped together within some containing form. At least in the Common Lisp community, it is conventional to indent these by two spaces, or sometimes one. But matching just an open parenthesis indented by two spaces would be too broad; so the pattern added by this commit requires an indented form to start with "(def". It is believed that this strikes a good balance between potential false positives and false negatives.
This commit disjoins a regexp employing these heuristics to the existing Scheme regexp, so it will still match everything that it did previously.
Johannes Sixt (1): userdiff: tighten word-diff test case of the scheme driver
Scott L. Burson (1): userdiff: extend Scheme support to cover other Lisp dialects
Documentation/gitattributes.adoc | 1 +
t/t4018/scheme-lisp-defun-a | 4 ++++
t/t4018/scheme-lisp-defun-b | 4 ++++
t/t4018/scheme-lisp-eval-when | 4 ++++
t/t4018/{scheme-module => scheme-module-a} | 0
t/t4018/scheme-module-b | 6 ++++++
t/t4034/scheme/expect | 5 +++--
t/t4034/scheme/post | 3 ++-
t/t4034/scheme/pre | 3 ++-
userdiff.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
10 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 t/t4018/scheme-lisp-defun-a
create mode 100644 t/t4018/scheme-lisp-defun-b
create mode 100644 t/t4018/scheme-lisp-eval-when
rename t/t4018/{scheme-module => scheme-module-a} (100%)
create mode 100644 t/t4018/scheme-module-bbase-commit: 8745eae506f700657882b9e32b2aa00f234a6fb6 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2000%2Fslburson%2Flisp-userdiff_driver-v3 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2000/slburson/lisp-userdiff_driver-v3 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2000
Range-diff vs v2:
1: da99bb0bcd < -: ---------- diff: "lisp" userdiff_driver 2: 86315aa3e3 < -: ---------- merge with Scheme regexp; fix bugs -: ---------- > 1: e20ac5b6a6 userdiff: tighten word-diff test case of the scheme driver -: ---------- > 2: fb4c8dc5d4 userdiff: extend Scheme support to cover other Lisp dialects
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