Re: ediff refinement issues

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

for purpoes of the test do something like this:

# asdfjkansdkljfan ksd fnak nsdflkadsnfkansdkfnakdsnf
# aklsfdnakljfnsdkasdnfja sdn fkljad nsfkj ansdkfn aksdjfna
# ksjfndk ajdnsf kajsndkfjansdkfjn ja nsdkjfn askdj fnakjs fdnakj
# nsdfkaj dns

then fill to a narrow fill column.

On 3/28/21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/26/11, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>   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 don't see that.  Maybe give a concrete example.  What I see is that
>> whitespace
>> is either ignored everywhere or it is not ignored at all (toggle this
>> with
>> `##').
>
> you are confusing different features.  take a commented paragraph with
> a few long lines, save it to a.  fill it.  save it to b.  now do diff
> mode on it and also ediff on it.
>
> you should notice that diff mode correctly notices tht the only
> non-whitgespaceish ifference is the comment prefix.  ediff thinks
> words changed.
>


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