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From: Carlo Traverso <traverso@dm.unipi.it>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu
Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020316162723.0E28BB804@cardano.dm.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shbsdozkh1.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de> (message from Karl Eichwalder on Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:54:34 +0100)

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

    Karl> Let me forward this enhancement proposal:


    Karl> This basically means a diff is required that compares line
    Karl> by line and that allows to say "next word" from version A or
    Karl> "rest of line" from version B is wanted.

Another point concerns whitespace: the "ignore whitespace" mode should
consider equivalent any positive quantity of whitespace (including
line ends), but should not ignore the difference between existing and
non-existing whitespace. Currently ediff ignores spaces between word
and punctuation.

    Karl> Here is Carlo's prototyp in Lisp:

    Karl>     http://www.dm.unipi.it/~traverso/Ebooks/Lsp/ocrdiff.lsp

I have put there a real-life sample of two different OCR with the
corresponding correct output.

Carlo


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-16 13:54 ediff feature request: diffing line by line Karl Eichwalder
2002-03-16 16:27 ` Carlo Traverso [this message]
2002-03-16 17:43   ` Michael Kifer
2002-03-16 23:04     ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-17  4:04       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-03-17 15:40         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-03-17 16:26           ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-17 18:37             ` Michael Kifer
2002-03-17 20:41               ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-17 19:20 ` Richard Stallman

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