Re: Diff on Emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> > M-x  ediff-buffers gives  you a  diff output  that can  be  refined to
> > character-based diff.
>
> This is not completely true.  Ediff refinements are word-based.
> Although this is a big improvement over line-based diff output,
> this is not the same thing as character-based `compare-windows'.

But you can (setq ediff-forward-word-function 'forward-char).

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Kevin Rodgers