From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jurgen De Backer <jurgen.de-backer.ext@eurocontrol.int>
Cc: 60070@debbugs.gnu.org, philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int
Subject: bug#60070: 27.2; Fully ignore whitespace option for ediff
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 12:31:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmchf1fh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80qpmcm6jpv.fsf@eurocontrol.int> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Cc: jurgen.de-backer.ext@eurocontrol.int, philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:19:56 +0000
> From: Jurgen De Backer via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Because we have a few files in which ediff doesn't handle whitespace
> differences well, we have added an option to the ediff menu that allows
> to add the options -Bbw to the diff command (actually an on/off toggle0,
> so that whitespace is ignored in the diff output before the difference
> regions are calculated.
> We think that this option may be useful to include
> in the official emacs.
> Please have a look at the attached patch and let us know what you think.
Thanks.
This is a substantial contribution, for which we would need a
copyright assignment from you. Would you like to start your legal
paperwork at this time, so that we could accept these changes when it
is done? If so, I will send to you the form to fill and the
instructions to email it after filling.
Thank you for your interest in Emacs.
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2022-12-14 16:19 bug#60070: 27.2; Fully ignore whitespace option for ediff Jurgen De Backer via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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