Re: Ediff: compare two (long) buffers Word-by-word

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:17:08 +0700
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> ‘ediff-windows-wordwise’ calls ‘ediff-windows’ which calls
> ‘ediff-regions-internal’, passing to it the two chosen windows and
> their respective visible parts. ‘ediff-windows-linewise’ behaves the
> same way.
> 
> This is not documented in their docstrings nor in Info. Moreover,
> (info "(ediff) Major Entry Points") contains the following wording:
> 
> > The commands ‘ediff-windows-wordwise’
> > and ‘ediff-regions-wordwise’ are intended for relatively small segments
> > of buffers (e.g., up to 100 lines, depending on the speed of your
> > machine)
> 
> which suggests that ‘ediff-windows-*’ should work for 100-line
> fragments, and that will only fit in a visible part of a window with a
> very small font.

Thanks, I fixed the documentation to be more explicit about what is
being compared by these functions.