* Nick mentioned "no "n" to follow the bouncing ball..."--in jest I
believe; but, seriously, you can do that too with EMACS and XAUTOMATION do:

apt-get install xautomation

(this will install xte I believe)

** well, if you wanted a "bouncing ball" to follow the music, in a say, 1
line per 3 seconds for a presentation/sing-along:

xterm -e watch -p -n3 "xte \"key n\"  "

*** Again, you put the cursor on the EDIFF help window --"n" will go line
per line

*** Which will work too; I do something like this everyday (use xte calling
out of EMACS/OrgMode several times a day at least).


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>wrote:

> * "That'd be cool if it worked, but at least in my case, it doesn't" --It
> works if you put line numbers at the beginning of each line--then it
> highlights the diff per line in both buffers/in both files--you do "Mx
> ediff-buffers" on--I know it works if you do--I tested it before I posted.
> I usually use "nl" (UNIX) to do this (quoting myself):
> ...
> nl sanskrit-song.txt > sanskrit-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt
> ...
>
> * Also, Thanks Nick for the pointing to notes on how to translate the
> english/roman script etc. and the updating of views related to this thread:
>
>
> "updated a thread on gnu.emacs.help with those
> suggestions: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/83724
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>
>> brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Make 2 files with line numbers at the begin of each line:
>> > nl sanskrit-song.txt > sanskrit-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt
>> > nl english-song.txt > english-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt
>> > emacs -q -l
>> sanskit-blah-mule-multilingual-emacs-programs-needed-to-show-sanskrit.el
>> >
>>  sanskrit-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt english-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt
>> > Mx ediff-buffers
>> > Emacs will pop-up an ediff window--put your mouse cursor on it and tap
>> "?"--it will show you the
>> > ediff keys--"n" for "next different line" will be most helpful
>> > (ediff will ask for the 1st and 2nd buffer you want to compare--type
>> > in sanskrit-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt
>> and english-song_line-numbers-at-front.txt
>> >
>> > --then tapping "n" (with your cursor on the popped up ediff window)
>> goes line-by-songline in both
>> > buffers--highlighting the text for a sanskrit sing-along!
>> >
>>
>> "That'd be cool if it worked, but at least in my case, it doesn't:
>> diff decides there is one big diff that covers the whole file,
>> and ediff does not find a "better" refinement: no "n"
>> to follow the bouncing ball...
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>