Re: Diff faces

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I like it to be finer than that.  I agree that chars are a bit too fine, but
>> it's rarely a problem.  Basically, I was thinking of refining enough so as
>> to treat "FooBar64" as 3 entities.
>> 
>> Also I often like the fact that it does not ignore whitespace differences
>> but I often would like it to ignore them, so I'd like to be able to choose.

> Perhaps two new options will help selecting the necessary granularity and
> whitespace to ignore.

My guess is that the "FooBar64" granularity should be both fine enough for
me and large enough to avoid the kind of bogus "correlation" between
unrelated chars.  So we'd only need a choice for whitespace.


        Stefan