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 10:16:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83d0qrgcl6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1543088011.1851.5.camel@gmail.com> <1543153712.1859.6.camel@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543306488 6739 195.159.176.226 (27 Nov 2018 08:14:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:14:48 +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 09:14:44 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 1gRYW3-0001bq-IX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:14:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYY9-0003zO-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYXJ-0003pU-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYXG-00020P-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYXG-00020I-3U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1724 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gRYXF-0002PK-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:15:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <1543153712.1859.6.camel@gmail.com> (message from ST on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:48:32 +0200) 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:118769 Archived-At: > From: ST > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:48:32 +0200 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs > > Somebody has provided a solution which seems to work very good without > any performance issues. There is a small error message, though... > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/46161/ediff-compare-two-long-buffers-word-by-word I still am not sure I understand what's wrong with the existing command ediff-regions-wordwise. > I assume the performance concerns where relevant 15-20 years ago > (presumably the time when those lines of the docs were written). It could be. I removed from the documentation the numbers that defined "large", however in general, for some value of "large" you will still see slower performance from wordwise comparison compared to the linewise comparison. > If it is easier, then comparing two files word-by-word, would also be a > nice feature: > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/46206/ediff-compare-two-files-word-by-word Again, why doesn't ediff-regions-wordwise fit the bill? > If this mailing list is the proper place to ask for enhancements: could > those two functions(/menu options) be added to Emacs, please? Bugs and enhancement request should be submitted using report-emacs-bug, thank you.