Re: ediff refinement issues

[Samuel Wales]

On 2011-11-26, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> Are you sure that the paragraphs themselves have only whitespace
> differences?

Yes of course.  I want ^;;; or ^# to act as whitespace in this case.

It is possible that those variables (which are in the Customization
section of the ediff manual) are insufficient to do what I want here.
It is possible that I need a new ediff-forward-word-function (which is
also in that section).

One issue is that I want only ^;;; or ^# to be treated as whitespace.
Not ;;; or # in the middle of text.

It is really simple.  I don't see why I should have to look at
highlighted spurious things when all I did was fill a paragraph.

> You say that `;;;' is highlighted as different.  Do you mean that the `;;;'
> is
> highlighted in both of these identical lines?
>
> ;;; commented line
>
> ;;; commented line

No, because they are identical.  But if you had an unfilled paragraph
there instead of a single line, and ediffed the filled and unfilled
versions, you might understand.

> 2. They are buffer-local.

What ediff hook works best here?