From: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)
Cc: keichwa@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:43:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203161743.MAA02813@sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Carlo Traverso" of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100 <20020316162723.0E28BB804@cardano.dm.unipi.it>
>>>>> "CT" == Carlo Traverso <of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100> writes:
>>>>> "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.
Ediff is designed to parse the output of diff and then present it in
different ways. What you are proposing is a kind of "incremental diff", if I
understand it correctly. I think it would require a major generalization of
the existing code to do that.
CT> Another point concerns whitespace: the "ignore whitespace" mode should
CT> consider equivalent any positive quantity of whitespace (including
CT> line ends), but should not ignore the difference between existing and
CT> non-existing whitespace. Currently ediff ignores spaces between word
CT> and punctuation.
This is because punctuation is considered to be part of the word by
default. Somehow I feel this is more useful in general. However, you can
customize this.
--michael
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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
2002-03-16 17:43 ` Michael Kifer [this message]
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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