Hello! I'm running emacs 21.2 and have set: ediff-diff-options's value is "--ignore-space-change --ignore-blank-lines" and when I run ediff-buffers, it says: ediff-setup-diff-regions: Option `-c' is not allowed in `ediff-diff-options' The attached patch fixes the problem: it refines the regexp for the check. I had a look into the CVS of Emacs, it looks like this is not yet fixed in the HEAD either. Regards, -- Ivan Zakharyaschev ALT Linux Team member I'm a Sisyphus developer: it's core is GNU/Linux http://www.altlinux.ru, http://www.altlinux.com