Hi,
It's below. So white-space doesn't include Non-breaking space('\xa0').
>From NEWS:
User-visible changes in version 2.4:
* cmp and diff now conform to POSIX 1003.2-1992 (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993)
if the underlying system conforms to POSIX:
- ``White space'' is now whatever C's `isspace' says it is.
"info isspace" says:
isspace()
checks for white-space characters. In the "C" and "POSIX"
locales, these are: space, form-feed ('\f'),
newline ('\n'), carriage return ('\r'), horizontal tab ('\t'),
and vertical tab ('\v').
Akira
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 15:19:23 -0800
Mallika Bachan <mallika.bac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm confused why white space isn't being ignored:
>
> MALLIKA-MBP:~ mallikab$ diff -w 17 18
>
> 3c3
>
> < Product: fec-secure
>
> ---
>
> > Product: fec-secure
>
> MALLIKA-MBP:~ mallikab$
>
> I have diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
>
> both on my Mac as well as the Linux box at work
>
>
> What does "Ignore all white space" mean?
>
> That I'm still gonna get output?
>
>
> -Mallika
