From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff & No newline at end of file Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:47:12 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214059663 5443 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2008 14:47:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:47:43 +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 Jun 21 16:48:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KA4OA-0004JY-Sl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:48:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KA4NL-0008C6-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KA4N2-0008Br-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KA4My-0008Bf-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49625 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KA4My-0008Bb-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37602 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KA4Mx-00006x-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KA4Mu-0000Bz-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:47:08 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:47:08 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:47:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55027 Archived-At: sandro dentella wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a happy user of ediff, both for diff and merge. What I have > not been able to to > and I really need is to configure it _NOT_ to complain about > missing newline ad the > end of a file. > > I frequently need to compare files and I really don't mind if they > have a final newline or not. > It's ok a warning but I want it to go ahead and show the differences > while now > I just see a single buffer with the warning and no ediff windows/ > panel. Hmmm, it seems like it ought to do the right thing out of the box: ,----[ C-h v ediff-diff-ok-lines-regexp RET ] | ediff-diff-ok-lines-regexp is a variable defined in `ediff-diff.el'. | Its value is | "^\\([0-9,]+[acd][0-9,]+ ?$\\|[<>] \\|---\\|.*Warning *:\\|.*No +newline\\|.*missing +newline\\|^ ?$\\)" | | | Documentation: | Regexp that matches normal output lines from `ediff-diff-program'. | This is mostly lifted from Emerge, except that Ediff also considers | warnings and `Missing newline'-type messages to be normal output. | Lines that do not match are assumed to be error messages. | | [back] `---- -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA