Re: Changing ediff-ignore-similar-regions has no effect

[Michael Kifer]

Thanks for noticing it. Will commit a fix soon.

> Changing the variable `ediff-ignore-similar-regions', either by typing
> "##" in the Ediff frame or by evaluating
> 
> (setq-default ediff-ignore-similar-regions t)
> 
> does not have the desired (and documented) effect of skipping regions
> that differ only in whitespace; they are displayed anyway.
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>   of 2005-10-29 on debian, modified by Debian
> X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
> 
> Important settings:
>    value of $LC_ALL: nil
>    value of $LC_COLLATE: C
>    value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>    value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>    value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>    value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>    value of $LC_TIME: nil
>    value of $LANG: de_DE
>    locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
>    default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> Major mode: Emacs-Lisp
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
>    display-time-mode: t
>    auto-image-file-mode: t
>    show-paren-mode: t
>    mouse-wheel-mode: t
>    tooltip-mode: t
>    auto-compression-mode: t
>    menu-bar-mode: t
>    global-font-lock-mode: t
>    font-lock-mode: t
>    unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>    utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>    temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
>    column-number-mode: t
>    line-number-mode: t
>    transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent input:
> M-f M-f M-f M-f M-w C-c s ( s e t q - d e f a u l t
> SPC C-y SPC <left> C-x C-e SPC t ) C-x C-e <left> <left>
> <left> C-x C-e C-x 0 C-x C-b C-x o <down> <down> <down>
> <down> <return> C-x C-b C-x o <down> <down> <down>
> <return> M-x e b u f <return> <return> <return> q y
> C-x n w M-x <up> <return> <return> <return> n <switch-frame>
> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame>
> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> q y
> M-x r e p o r t - e m a <tab> <return>
> 
> Recent messages:
> Buffer B: Processing difference region 310 of 318
> Processing difference regions ... done
> Refining difference region 1 ...
> Refining difference region 2 ...
> Refining difference region 3 ...
> Refining difference region 4 ...
> Only white-space differences in region 4
> Only white-space differences in region 4
> Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)
> Loading emacsbug...done
> 
> 
> 
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