From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ediff: compare two (long) buffers Word-by-word Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83efb7gcrm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1543088011.1851.5.camel@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543306237 19306 195.159.176.226 (27 Nov 2018 08:10:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:10:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 27 09:10:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYS0-0004wj-UQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:10:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40589 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYU4-0001k4-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYTc-0001jk-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:12:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYTW-0008Vv-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYTW-0008Vn-NB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:12:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1488 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYTW-00023U-5N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:12:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:17:08 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118768 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:17:08 +0700 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs > > ‘ediff-windows-wordwise’ calls ‘ediff-windows’ which calls > ‘ediff-regions-internal’, passing to it the two chosen windows and > their respective visible parts. ‘ediff-windows-linewise’ behaves the > same way. > > This is not documented in their docstrings nor in Info. Moreover, > (info "(ediff) Major Entry Points") contains the following wording: > > > The commands ‘ediff-windows-wordwise’ > > and ‘ediff-regions-wordwise’ are intended for relatively small segments > > of buffers (e.g., up to 100 lines, depending on the speed of your > > machine) > > which suggests that ‘ediff-windows-*’ should work for 100-line > fragments, and that will only fit in a visible part of a window with a > very small font. Thanks, I fixed the documentation to be more explicit about what is being compared by these functions.