In this ~15 minute video, I show how to inspect the differences between two or three files in a side-by-side comparison. Ediff lets you merge changes from on...
        • geza42@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          This has nothing to do with the diff program. Ediff is not able to highlight whitespace differences like it highlights non-whitespace differences. Maybe it is possible to do somehow, but by default, whitespace differences generate a diff region with no highlights (or as ediff calls it, refinements).

          It is because highlights are done on word level, and whitespaces are not words.

  • 00-11@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Also very basic, IMO:

    • g X - go to buffer X’s point
    • j - jump to diff number (prefix arg)
    • ! - update (re-diff)
    • C-l - recenter
    • * - refine current region
    • ## - ignore whitespace diffs