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Re: diff -b does not actually work with newlines
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: diff -b does not actually work with newlines |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:21:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> diff -b is working as specified. It sounds like you want wdiff; you
> might try using that instead.
wdiff does not return suitable output or take suitable options.
Could you explain how you figure that diff -b is working as specified?
Here is the specification I come up with:
(info "(diff) White Space")
1.2 Suppressing Differences in Blank and Tab Spacing
====================================================
The `-b' and `--ignore-space-change' options ignore white space at line
end, and considers all other sequences of one or more white space
characters to be equivalent.
[...]
"White space" characters include tab, newline, vertical tab, form
feed, carriage return, and space; some locales may define
additional characters to be white space.
[...]
newlines are quite explicitly listed as white space here. So what
specification are you referring to?
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David Kastrup