From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Refining ediff's idea of a difference? Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:11:41 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9892BC08A0@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422659522 8547 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2015 23:12:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:12:02 +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 Jan 31 00:12:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YHKjH-00045p-9F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHKjG-000288-J5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52665) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHKj3-0001t1-6n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHKj0-00062h-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:9751 helo=livemail.shubertorg.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHKiz-00062Y-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.03.0123.003; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:11:42 -0500 Thread-Topic: Refining ediff's idea of a difference? Thread-Index: AdA84hsjGiShNh+wR5aa4tjLaI1rtA== Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 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:102386 Archived-At: Using ediff I find that very often one difference one difference seems inap= propriately large and might obscure a small difference. In the example at hand I have the two following diffs: <<<< A -clrobj server_info_blk -fid server_info_begin_time -val 2015-01-29 1= 5:28:47 >>>> B -clrobj server_info_blk -fid server_info_begin_time -val 2015-01-29 1= 5:27:28 -fid server_info_reply_que -val=20 -fid server_info_tran_msg_type -val=20 -fid server_info_tran_id -val=20 -fid server_info_seq_msg_type -val=20 -fid server_info_seq_id -val=20 ... The lines following diff A are these <<<< A -fid server_info_reply_que -val=20 -fid server_info_tran_msg_type -val=20 -fid server_info_tran_id -val=20 -fid server_info_seq_msg_type -val=20 -fid server_info_seq_id -val=20 which look, to my eye, identical to those flagged as different in diff B. I'd rather those lines are recognized as identical, so the diff is minimal.= Is there a conventional way to do that? I haven't found anything obvious in ediff customization. Browsing the code = didn't reveal much more than the fact that ediff seems to use diff with no = options. It clearly does more with that information. Thanks in advance. --=20 ,Doug Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 or ext 4335 The human brain is the most complex thing known to man, according to the hu= man brain.