Re: How do I get ediff-buffers3 to ignore space changes?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> What exactly does "only white space changes" mean?  Can you show an
> example of two chunks of text that have "only white space changes"?

Just difference in tabs and/or spaces.

> And btw, are the EOL formats of the buffers the same?

All of them have unix EOL.

> This invokes the diff3 command, which cannot ignore whitespace.

Thanks, that is a problem.

>> However when I try to run ediff-buffers (just two buffers) I now get
>> "invalid switch (shown in *ediff-errors*).
>
> I don't see this error.  Maybe you should file a proper bug report.

Maybe. It turns out in the end that this is probably a problem with
tabs vs space. Do we have a policy for the Emacs repository regarding
tabs vs spaces?