From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carlo Traverso Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100 (CET) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020316162723.0E28BB804@cardano.dm.unipi.it> References: Reply-To: traverso@dm.unipi.it NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016296304 21800 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2002 16:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16mH5s-0005fW-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:31:44 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16mH9I-0005UF-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:35:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16mH4R-0005W5-00; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from cardano.dm.unipi.it ([131.114.6.22]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16mH1g-0005Nk-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: by cardano.dm.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 3010) id 0E28BB804; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100 (CET) Original-To: keichwa@gmx.net In-Reply-To: (message from Karl Eichwalder on Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:54:34 +0100) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1968 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1968 >>>>> "Karl" == Karl Eichwalder 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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel