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Re: Diff on Emacs
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: Diff on Emacs |
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Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:52:38 +0200 |
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LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>>>>>> "Juri" == Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> Juri> Jasen <xx@yy.zz> writes:
> >> There are many diff*.el and ediff*.el files in ../lisp/
> >> directory so isn't diff a standard built-in function for emacs?
> Juri> To compare two buffers you can use Emacs function
> Juri> `compare-windows' from compare-w.el which now implements a
> Juri> simple diff algorithm. Instead of line by line output of
> Juri> the 'diff' program, `compare-windows' provides differences
> Juri> character by character which produces more fine-grained
> Juri> results than the 'diff' program.
>
> M-x ediff-buffers gives you a diff output that can be refined to
> character-based diff.
This is not completely true. Ediff refinements are word-based.
Although this is a big improvement over line-based diff output,
this is not the same thing as character-based `compare-windows'.
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