Questions tagged [diff]
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Lightweight (pure elisp) diffs?
I need to display word-diffs of a number of small strings.
That is, I have a list of pairs similar to the following:
"aaa bbb ccc" . "aaa vv ccc"
"abcd ef ghkl" . "ghkl"
"a (u -> h)" . "(a -> g) (u -> h)"
In each case I'd like to highlight changed…
Clément
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How do I check if two regions have identical content?
How do i check if two regions have identical content? Is it possible to do so while ignoring language-specific whitespace?
Ben Hyde
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Is there an Emacs function or package to visually compare two text strings?
Searching on Google, I found this website: https://www.dcode.fr/differences-2-texts. It allows "visually" comparing two text strings at the character level,
returning a result like this:
My question is: is there any function or package that allows…
Gabriele
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.. changed on disk; Really edit the buffer? :: diff
I get asked this and it gives me these options:
You want to modify a buffer whose disk file has changed
since you last read it in or saved it with this buffer.
If you say y to go ahead and modify this buffer,
you risk ruining the work of whoever…
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Why does vdiff not show differences between these two files?
Linux Mint 20, Emacs 27.2, vdiff -20210426.155
I create two files and want to find the difference between them.
M-x vdiff-files
Select file1.txt and file2.txt
Here is the result:
As you can see both files have different content (last character in…
a_subscriber
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Show only different symbols. Not entire line
windows 10, dired+
when I compare two files I get this:
The different in this file are two words:
first
second
But diff tool show me that is different ENTIRE line.
It's not very good.
Is it possible to show only exact different symbols?
smt like…
Alex
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