From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Subject: Re: Diff on Emacs
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:52:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8ueypeh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3oevaj3bh.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>>>>>> "Juri" == Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> Juri> Jasen <xx@yy.zz> writes:
> >> There are many diff*.el and ediff*.el files in ../lisp/
> >> directory so isn't diff a standard built-in function for emacs?
> Juri> To compare two buffers you can use Emacs function
> Juri> `compare-windows' from compare-w.el which now implements a
> Juri> simple diff algorithm. Instead of line by line output of
> Juri> the 'diff' program, `compare-windows' provides differences
> Juri> character by character which produces more fine-grained
> Juri> results than the 'diff' program.
>
> M-x ediff-buffers gives you a diff output that can be refined to
> character-based diff.
This is not completely true. Ediff refinements are word-based.
Although this is a big improvement over line-based diff output,
this is not the same thing as character-based `compare-windows'.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-18 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-11 4:19 Diff on Emacs Jasen
2003-11-11 4:27 ` Jasen
2003-11-11 4:37 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-11 5:30 ` Jasen
2003-11-11 7:46 ` Joakim Hove
2003-11-11 10:04 ` Barman Brakjoller
2003-11-11 9:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-13 13:50 ` LEE Sau Dan
2003-11-14 16:02 ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-17 17:46 ` LEE Sau Dan
2003-11-18 9:52 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2003-11-18 18:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-11 17:45 ` kgold
2003-11-12 6:09 ` Jasen
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2003-11-11 11:42 Victor Kirk
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