RE: finer diff

[Bingham, Jay]

Have you considered Tools - Compare - Regions Word-by-Word?
I think that it will do what you are looking for, but it takes some
setup.  Since a buffer can have only one primary region. The text must
be copied to a temporary buffer in order to set up the regions and do
the compare.
If you want to do it without moving text I don't know of a way.  You
might consider creating your own compare function that would compare the
primary region and the secondary region of a single buffer.  It probably
would not be hard to do if you based your function/s on the
ediff-regions-wordwise function and perhaps the ediff-regions-internal
function (both found in ediff.el).  I looked at these briefly and it
looks like it might be doable, but would probably require that there be
two windows open one containing each region.

Good luck,
J_)
C_)ingham
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.    Austin, TX
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz@is.elta.co.il] 
Sent:   Thursday, 18 October, 2001 6:17 a
To:     Roman Suzi
Cc:     help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:        Re: finer diff


On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Roman Suzi wrote:

> On 18 Oct 2001, Roman Belenov wrote:
> 
> > What package are you using to invoke diff from Emacs ? Ediff does
> > highlight differences in changed fragments (in your example words
"this"
> > and "two" in first variant and "that" in second variant are
highlighted).
> 
> Yes, Ediff does it, but I want to look at only one document, not 
> two, and see changes there:

See "M-x ediff-buffers" and "M-x ediff-buffers3".

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