Difference between ignorews, ignorewsamount and ignoreblanklines

Patrick Mézard pmezard at gmail.com
Mon Apr 12 08:54:01 CDT 2010


Le 12/04/10 14:59, Nikolaus Rath a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I don't quite get the diff settings for treating whitespace.
> ignoreblanklines itself is pretty clear. But will ignorews and
> ignorewsamount also ignore blank lines?

No.

> And if ignorewsamount ignores
> the amount of whitespace (so "foo bar" and "foo bar" are equal), does
> ignorews really ignore whitespace completely (so that "foobar" and "foo
> bar" are equal)?

Yes (whitespace being spaces or tabs).

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Patrick Mézard


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