Re: Suggestion for ediff
It'd probably be best to layer the diffs: first do a word-granularity diff and then do a char-granularity diff within words. That's my opinion too. But maybe that'd be too slow. This is why I was proposing just looking at the beginning and end of each word, which is two comparison if the words are actually different, and linear in the number of common chars otherwise. I see what you meant, then. Sorry for being a bit slow. Now that I think about it, it may be possible to make char-level diffs on words reasonably fast, by running char-level diff only once (rather than once per word), basically putting all the words-to-diff into two files, separated by sufficiently large and unique text to make sure that diff won't get out-of-sync. Stefan ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
Re: Suggestion for ediff
It currently does word-granularity, and does it very well. Character granularity would probably be too much work compared to what it would provide. Actually, smerge-mode (take a look at smerge-refine) does character-granularity and it wasn't more work (quite the opposite, actually). It usually works great, but it turns out that character granularity sometimes fails spectacularly (diff gets confused by some apparent similarity somewhere and ends up getting completely out of sync). It'd probably be best to layer the diffs: first do a word-granularity diff and then do a char-granularity diff within words. But maybe that'd be too slow. Stefan ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
Re: Suggestion for ediff
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It'd probably be best to layer the diffs: first do a word-granularity diff and then do a char-granularity diff within words. That's my opinion too. But maybe that'd be too slow. This is why I was proposing just looking at the beginning and end of each word, which is two comparison if the words are actually different, and linear in the number of common chars otherwise. -- Matthieu ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
