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Re: How do I get ediff-buffers3 to ignore space changes?
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: How do I get ediff-buffers3 to ignore space changes? |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:01:11 +0100 |
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> What exactly does "only white space changes" mean? Can you show an
> example of two chunks of text that have "only white space changes"?
Just difference in tabs and/or spaces.
> And btw, are the EOL formats of the buffers the same?
All of them have unix EOL.
> This invokes the diff3 command, which cannot ignore whitespace.
Thanks, that is a problem.
>> However when I try to run ediff-buffers (just two buffers) I now get
>> "invalid switch (shown in *ediff-errors*).
>
> I don't see this error. Maybe you should file a proper bug report.
Maybe. It turns out in the end that this is probably a problem with
tabs vs space. Do we have a policy for the Emacs repository regarding
tabs vs spaces?