From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20129: 23.3; ediff can't ignore whitespace regarding tabs vs spaces Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:39:28 +0100 Message-ID: <878safrudr.fsf@gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23443"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 20129@debbugs.gnu.org To: Geof Sawaya Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 03 12:41:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmyx-0005yn-3S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40282 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmyv-00076A-W6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmxu-0005z0-Mm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmxu-0000bk-CP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmxu-0002Rt-91 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20129 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 20129-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20129.16069955939386 (code B ref 20129); Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20129) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Dec 2020 11:39:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38714 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmxY-0002Qt-HL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:45366) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmxW-0002Qc-Kw for 20129@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:39:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=vIjxwUMz0+mLJoPiEFgMBTCNWV0ts/9ndg3eaSS2INg=; b=bGhquH/COs+MqlkHv0aGh9TJRL lUwefy10SB3cigBWDtF7IOdpyFhPo2pHkegNsqBy9eYemMQBmVzz4W8p7CDbf8FkvWVxG2/C2VzCQ 4rHXHhRUXc1QOsAW2uDO9xzHdXJpPUbvvs3/CgWdNvgnGWzIadu7NRRKDcTLjlu4cLt4=; Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=xo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kkmxO-0002wx-0t; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:39:32 +0100 X-Now-Playing: Old's _Formula_: "Amoeba" In-Reply-To: (Geof Sawaya's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:21:19 -0600") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:194886 Archived-At: Geof Sawaya writes: > I was working on a major merge (of two versions of a file) using ediff (the file that > was giving me > trouble was about 10k lines long). I was getting HUGE diference regions > and also it was strange that I had varying regions between the files > where I didn't discern any difference in the text. This was after > enabling (with ##) the option to ignore differences in whitespace. (This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.) Is this problem still present in more recent Emacs versions? If so, could you provide a recipe to reproduce the bug, starting from "emacs -Q"? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no