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RE: Refining ediff's idea of a difference?
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Doug Lewan |
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RE: Refining ediff's idea of a difference? |
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Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:49:27 +0000 |
ELi,
You wrote:
> The relevant defcustom is ediff-diff-options.
I'll play with different values and see what happens.
Thanks.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dougl=shubertticketing.com
> On Behalf Of Eli Zaretskii
> Subject: Re: Refining ediff's idea of a difference?
>
> > From: Doug Lewan
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:11:41 +0000
> >
> > Using ediff I find that very often one difference one difference
> seems inappropriately large and might obscure a small difference.
> >
> > In the example at hand I have the two following diffs:
> >
> > <<<< A
> > -clrobj server_info_blk -fid server_info_begin_time -val 2015-
> 01-29 15:28:47
> > >>>> B
> > -clrobj server_info_blk -fid server_info_begin_time -val 2015-
> 01-29 15:27:28
> > -fid server_info_reply_que -val
> > -fid server_info_tran_msg_type -val
> > -fid server_info_tran_id -val
> > -fid server_info_seq_msg_type -val
> > -fid server_info_seq_id -val
> > ...
> >
> > The lines following diff A are these
> > <<<< A
> > -fid server_info_reply_que -val
> > -fid server_info_tran_msg_type -val
> > -fid server_info_tran_id -val
> > -fid server_info_seq_msg_type -val
> > -fid server_info_seq_id -val
> > which look, to my eye, identical to those flagged as different in
> diff B.
> >
> > I'd rather those lines are recognized as identical, so the diff is
> minimal. Is there a conventional way to do that?
>
> Ediff just obeys here what the Diff utility outputs. So try playing
> with Diff switches, like -d, -b, -B, -w, --horizon-lines.
>
> > I haven't found anything obvious in ediff customization. Browsing the
> code didn't reveal much more than the fact that ediff seems to use diff
> with no options. It clearly does more with that information.
>
> The relevant defcustom is ediff-diff-options.
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