From: Oleg Cherkasov <o1e9.cherkasov@yandex.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ediff: compare two (long) buffers Word-by-word
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:35:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <365f4cda-5a64-096a-b4ff-27dcce45371b@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1543088011.1851.5.camel@gmail.com>
On 24.11.2018 20:33, ST wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use Emacs 26.1 and try to compare two (long) buffers (opened side by
> side) by clicking Tools -> Compare (Ediff) -> Windows Word-by-word...
> Then I choose both Windows (A and B) by clicking on each opened buffer.
> However it looks like Emacs compares only the visible parts of the two
> buffers, not the whole buffers. Why?
>
> I saw there is a command `ediff-windows-wordwise`... How is "Window"
> defined? - as "currently visible part of a buffer"? If yes, is there
> something like `ediff-buffers-wordwise`?
>
> I have `git` in `exec-path`, so maybe I can make ediff to display the
> output of `git diff --word-diff file1 file2` in ediff style?
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/46161/ediff-compare-two-long-buffers-word-by-word
Long time ago I found 'compare-windows' very useful comparing two
buffers line by line. Set cursor to start position on one buffer and
then another and M-x compare-windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-24 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-24 19:33 Ediff: compare two (long) buffers Word-by-word ST
2018-11-24 23:35 ` Oleg Cherkasov [this message]
2018-11-25 9:17 ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-25 13:48 ` ST
2018-11-27 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-27 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-11-24 22:26 ` B. T. Raven
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