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(Comparing Files): Clarify compare-windows.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:35:42 +0000 |
| parents | c502137f8bb7 |
| children | 3723093a21fd |
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| 2916 recent backup. If you specify the name of a backup file, | 2916 recent backup. If you specify the name of a backup file, |
| 2917 @code{diff-backup} compares it with the source file that it is a backup | 2917 @code{diff-backup} compares it with the source file that it is a backup |
| 2918 of. | 2918 of. |
| 2919 | 2919 |
| 2920 @findex compare-windows | 2920 @findex compare-windows |
| 2921 The command @kbd{M-x compare-windows} compares the text in the current | 2921 The command @kbd{M-x compare-windows} compares the text in the |
| 2922 window with that in the next window. Comparison starts at point in each | 2922 current window with that in the next window. (For more information |
| 2923 window, and each starting position is pushed on the mark ring in its | 2923 about windows in Emacs, @ref{Windows}.) Comparison starts at point in |
| 2924 respective buffer. Then point moves forward in each window, a character | 2924 each window, after pushing each initial point value on the mark ring |
| 2925 at a time, until a mismatch between the two windows is reached. Then | 2925 in its respective buffer. Then it moves point forward in each window, |
| 2926 the command is finished. Another invocation of this command with | 2926 one character at a time, until it reaches characters that don't match. |
| 2927 points on mismatching positions tries to skip non-matching text and | 2927 Then the command exits. |
| 2928 move points forward, until a match between the two windows is reached. | 2928 |
| 2929 For more information about windows in Emacs, @ref{Windows}. | 2929 If point in the two windows is followed by non-matching text when |
| 2930 the command starts, it tries heuristically to advance up to matching | |
| 2931 text in the two windows, and then exits. So if you use @kbd{M-x | |
| 2932 compare-windows} repeatedly, each time it either skips one matching | |
| 2933 range or finds the start of another. | |
| 2930 | 2934 |
| 2931 @vindex compare-ignore-case | 2935 @vindex compare-ignore-case |
| 2932 @vindex compare-ignore-whitespace | 2936 @vindex compare-ignore-whitespace |
| 2933 With a numeric argument, @code{compare-windows} ignores changes in | 2937 With a numeric argument, @code{compare-windows} ignores changes in |
| 2934 whitespace. If the variable @code{compare-ignore-case} is | 2938 whitespace. If the variable @code{compare-ignore-case} is |