From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:43:09 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203161743.MAA02813@sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <20020316162723.0E28BB804@cardano.dm.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016300946 23547 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2002 17:49:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keichwa@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16mIIk-00067h-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:49:06 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16mIMB-00062F-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:52:40 +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 16mIHo-0005ON-00; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu ([130.245.1.15]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16mIGM-0005N6-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:46:38 -0500 Original-Received: from sbkifer (sbkifer [130.245.1.35]) by sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02813; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:43:08 -0500 (EST) Original-To: traverso@dm.unipi.it In-Reply-To: "Carlo Traverso" of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100 <20020316162723.0E28BB804@cardano.dm.unipi.it> 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:1970 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1970 >>>>> "CT" == Carlo Traverso writes: >>>>> "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. 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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel