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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
