From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Wales Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ediff refinement issues Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:15:21 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322327735 12683 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2011 17:15:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:15:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 18:15:30 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 1RULqb-0007xR-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:15:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RULqb-0005ku-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:15:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RULqW-0005kk-Ps for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RULqV-00063e-NM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:44811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RULqV-00063Z-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:15:23 -0500 Original-Received: by iaek3 with SMTP id k3so8067582iae.0 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:15:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=XTCeOpZ5UUYAsu/81gzsd/jq6iS3fcNsXylqWV9rrz4=; b=V/lGiE9pGV7QnMKpBzThLRAyypZuLNRt+4gr7PxNu2Hpf1YE2Pl6w6TZ1qS/p/R1gz 20zQkTzgK2fG0BdUkEkwwkgJ32Kwqs45pbx6P/oFh0nLCZNdyXXPCjZ0IyooStS8ActG MuOdAFp1fjiS1pjC55Lu2sqkyBe0jsyHgtANI= Original-Received: by 10.42.154.7 with SMTP id o7mr18024587icw.48.1322327721753; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:15:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.42.176.129 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:15:21 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 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:83055 Archived-At: Ediff lets you show individual words that are different, and it also shows you when there are only whitespace differences in paragraphs. I am having issues with each of these two related features. 1) When there are only whitespace differences in normal paragraphs, such as by refilling, ediff works well. It says there are only whitespace differences and does not highlight any words. However, if the paragraphs are commented (for example, with ;;; in elisp or # in shell), it highlights the ;;; or the #. it also sometimes highlights words as a side effect. I want ediff to show refilled commented paragraphs as only having whitespace differences. 2) When I change a date like 2011-01-01, ediff highlights the entire date even if I only changed one part of it. For example, if I change 01 to 02, it will still highlight the entire date. I want it to show only the part I changed. There are variables ediff-word-1 ediff-word-2 ediff-word-3 ediff-word-4 that are supposed to customize this. I tried them in various ways and they didn't produce the results I wanted. How do you use those variables to do this? Thanks.