This mail is sent only for information Rowan Collins schrieb:
I believe work related to the "e-notif" patch has implemented a link which shows the difference between the current version and the version that you last viewed, which goes some way towards this. That doesn't, of course, give you the list of *summaries* for those edits, but you can get that out of the page history easily enough anyway, I guess.
Rowan, your statement is *correct*: users who use a medawiki version 1.3.7, 1.3.10., 1.3.11 or CVS HEAD (1.5) with the ENotif patch receive in their notification emails always a direct link to the "diff-between-current-and-last-visited-revision". This shows the directly the (cumulated) difference, when you click - and can be days or weeks later than the change, which triggered the mail.
Thus, clicking shows the full difference, no matter how late you visit the diff link which was mailed to you.
My personal version of CVS HEAD shows also "diff-to-lvr" links on the recent changes views and in the watchlist view - in addition to the "(hist) (diff)" links: each bolded (=watched) pagename has such a third link "(diff-to-lvr)", which I find very convenient.
Again: it is important to understand, that the described "lvr" links are currently only mailed in the ENotif mail (and shown in my working version for HEAD) for one's watched pages !
Tom ENotif Screenshots, downloads http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif and http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536 (For pages on watchlist save last seen version number) and http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603 (delete/undelete cycle doesn't preserce old_id)