From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff refinement issues Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:16:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87sjkx23am.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <37A77E4AAFA04D55AE5F755FDFB995F7@us.oracle.com> <87wrajtd11.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323181204 19600 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2011 14:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Samuel Wales Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 15:20:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXvsF-0008SE-MT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:20:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40470 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXvsE-0006Dv-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:19:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXvs5-0006D1-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:19:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXvs1-0003LI-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp208.alice.it ([82.57.200.104]:46263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXvs1-0003LE-2m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:19:45 -0500 Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (95.244.65.2) by smtp208.alice.it (8.6.023.02) id 4ECA61BE02077D1D; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:19:44 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXvpC-0001vI-9F; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:16:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Samuel Wales's message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:27:54 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.104 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83141 Archived-At: () Samuel Wales () Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:27:54 -0700 On 2011-11-29, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > 2. There is no option/command to have ediff ignore differences in > text that matches a pattern other than whitespace. > > If Ediff usees GNU diff, perhaps there is a way to specify =E2=80=98-I= REGEXP=E2=80=99. I think that would ignore comments entirely, instead of ignoring formatting in comments. No? You are right. It looks like =E2=80=98-I REGEXP=E2=80=99 is not what you s= eek.