On Fri Jun 9 08:13:18 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2006/6/8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed Jun 7 17:07:21 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > acme and previously sam has done me well with all manner of badly formatted > > and ill-concieved c, c++, perl, pre-f77 fortran, etc. > Well, mostly I have strict rules about "your fixes must give MINIMAL > changes". So I'm not allowed changing any line (spacing, etc.) if I > the final code doesn't change. According to this rule, through the > years the code became a big mess. > So, I use gvim because I can control quite fine the spacing changes > with Undo/Redo, etc. > I don't think 'acme' would be better than gvim for me in this > situation, but I'm not an "accostumed" user of acme.
acme has full undo/redo. but more to the point, why don't you write a script to strip whitespace and then diff your ws-stripped file against the ws-stripped baseline file. then apply the diff script to the original files? - erik
