patch instead of reinplace?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Kurt Hindenburg <kurt.hindenburg at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,  I find reinplace easier and less work for new releases.  Are there
> reasons to use one over the other?


reinplace is appropriate for replacing self-contained "tokens" and such.
When the context of an edit is important, reinplace handles context very
poorly, while patch is designed to handle it and fail if the context can't
be rationalized (e.g. by detecting that something moved but is otherwise
the same).

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