Questions tagged [ediff]
Ediff is a feature of Emacs which allows comparing two or more files or buffers, as well as merging two files or buffers into one.
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How to save/revert changes to only parts of a buffer?
I'd love a partial save-buffer and/or revert-buffer (if I have one, I think I could easily enough implement the other). Perhaps where I select a region and have only changes within that region get ...
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How do I call ediff-regions-wordwise programmatically?
I want to compare two regions of the same buffer (it's the output from test failures). It looks something like this:
Some header lines
{
...expected body
}, but was
{
...actual body
}
Some footer ...
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Modern Emacs keeps opening related file from vc-diff buffer
Initially I opened Lags when navigating vc-root-diff buffer and the cause of slowness was Emacs opening referenced files by diff.
Back then I used Emacs 27.1. Now I'm on Emacs 28.2 and previous ...
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Ediff Changes Window Title
Before I launch ediff, emacs has this window title
0x08e000ac 0 spartacus scratch.spartacus.org - GNU Emacs at spartacus
, but after launch it has this
x08e01bc4 0 spartacus *Ediff Control Panel*
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MAGIT: How to show 2 side-by-side window of only changes, not whole document
Once in the Magit buffer, hit E, choose the diff and when they're displayed then switch to vertical mode with |.
So far so good.
However, this shows three panes, not two.
How to show just current and ...
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How to change the binding of "?" on the help command in ediff-mode?
I am willing to learn how to use ediff-mode.
One of the reasons that I am struggling is because I need to ask for help which is bound to ?. Unfortunately, I am having a hard time with ? on an American ...
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Is it necessary to save buffers as files in order to use command highlight-compare-buffer?
Based on a nice comment from @Drew on this previous question, I tried to use the command highlight-compare-buffers (although he did not mention exactly this comment).
My first attempt was actually ...
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Ediff update highlighting after edits and ediff-copy
When using ediff, I find it annoying that when I use a or b to copy from one buffer to another, the region remains highlighted despite the fact that the two files now match in those regions. I don't ...
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Automatically change ediff-diff-options based on buffer mode of targets
I use ediff all the time and have ediff-diff-options set to -wBb. This works most of the time but I've gotten burned diff-ing some Python scripts and the occasional makefile since whitespace matters ...
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My tiling window manager is crashing with ediff-mode window creation. How to fix it?
I am using Material Shell which is a tiling window manager created as an extension of GNOME Desktop Environment.
After an interactive rebase in Magit, a merge conflict happened. Thus, to fix it, I ...
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Erratic Next behavior with ediff-buffers
We recently switched from Cinnamon to Gnome, and ever since then I have seen erratic behavior with ediff-buffers, whereby hitting n (Next) no longer reliably jump to the next change. It would ...
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How to use ediff with JSON, so it abstracts from member order in objects?
Currently I use ediff a lot for diffing all sorts of text files. I also use it for looking at diffs between JSON files. The problem is that a lot of differences appear which are semantically ...
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Output side-by-side ediff to html
Vim has a command :tohtml which is particularly useful when sharing side-by-side diffs to non-programmers - they can open the resulting html file to see the results of a vimdiff.
In emacs I use ediff ...
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Magit ediff range in a pretty way?
I need to investigate a project, with a patch made by a former student of my university. He made a series of commits on a repo, and I need to see what additions he made.
I got the list of files ...
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MAGIT: easier to read diffs
Is there a way in MAGIT to see diffs as one line instead of two with deletions and additions in one line? It would be much easier to navigate.
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Can ediff be used to view an existing diff/patch?
Given an existing patch (for example, git show -c > my.diff; emacs my.diff)
Most of the commands that are part of ediff rely on having both source & destination available, or referencing ...
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How to provide my own ediff-make-wide-display-function for ediff
For Ediff's wide display feature I like to use my own ediff-make-wide-display function. Ediff has a variable for this: ediff-make-wide-display-function. However when I write:
(defun my-ediff-make-wide-...
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Ediff in one frame
I want to start Ediff in a single frame the way pacfiles does:
Right now it opens the control panel in a separate frame.
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How to search only the difference region's while using ediff command?
While viewing diff b/w 2 files using ediff command, i want to search for a string only in the difference region. What is the right way to this?
EDIT: added clarification
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Show different on the specific chars
Linux Mint 20, Emacs 27.2
I compare two files by ediff
Here result:
As you can see the ediff show different on the specific line.
But... I need to see different in the specific chars (A and Z).
I ...
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How to setup ediff to open a new frame with the two comparison buffers
When I issue M-x ediff-buffersI'd like ediff to create a new frame with the two buffers (and close this frame when done with the comparison). How can I customise ediff to do so?
I tried
(defun leo-...
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While merging, how to tell Magit to use one version of the file?
When I merge something and there are conflicts, I can go to the file in the magit status page (SPC-g-s) and press, for example, e to start ediff. Within that, I can scroll through all conflicts and ...
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How to efficiently merge 2 buffers which are partially overlapping?
Problem summary
Imagine, you have 2 shopping lists:
1 huge one with hundreds of entries - list A, copied into buffer A
1 containing dozens of entries - list B, copied into buffer B
Then:
75% of ...
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How to `ediff-buffer` with ansi-colors (script output)? `ediff-file` works!
Context: files with ANSI and other terminal color codes.
I often record terminal transcripts using the traditional script program or expect. Colored ls output, colored grep matches, mc and other ...
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How to abort an ediff merge?
I use ediff to merge mercurial conflicts (and sometimes git conflicts), but I can't seem to abort. Ediff pops up as soon as a conflict is detected, and quitting and not saving results in mercurial ...
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Finding missing key bindings
I was just looking at the Ediff manual¹ for something, and it's one of those Emacs manuals that (a bit annoyingly) only list keybinds and not function names (so, if you have rebinding going on, you ...
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Merging diffs/hunks
When using ediff, I often get conflicts like this:
<<<<<<< variant A
added_function_1 () {
=======
added_function_2 () {
>>>>>>> variant B
<<<<&...
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Setting mode-line font size and Magit diff colours
I'd like to adjust the background colour of the part of the diffs displayed by Magit. In particular, the background colour of the text 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the image. I'd like to increase the contrast ...
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magit ediff conflicts wordwise
During a magit-rebase I'm running into conflicts on single long lines, where I'd like to take some parts of the line from the A and some from the B buffer.
After hitting * -refine current region ...
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How do I do the key strokes `C-M-c` in spacemacs?
I'm using spacemacs but trying to use ediff-regions-linewise to compare a couple regions of text. In order to confirm the selection, I need to do C-M-c.
This is probably a silly question, but how do ...
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How can I diff two long lines from the same buffer?
When I run tests for my projects, failing tests produce output that looks something like this:
expected: "..."
but got: "..."
The "..." are long lines that often only have small ...
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emacs ediff show all buffer diff word-wise (like vimdiff)
Issue description
When launching Ediff color scheme is very poor and i do not have word wise diff highlight. It seems that diff color faces are not activated at ediff startup.
I use emacs -Q to ...
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Ediff: compare two files Word-by-word
I use Emacs 26.1 and would like to compare two files word-by-word. Clicking "Tools -> Compare (Ediff) -> Windows Word-by-word..." allows only to compare the visible parts of two buffers, not the whole ...
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Ediff: compare two (long) buffers Word-by-word
I use Emacs 26.1 and try to compare two (long) buffers (opened side by side) by clicking Tools -> Compare (Ediff) -> Windows Word-by-word... Then I choose both Windows (A and B) by clicking on each ...
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How to get p4merge like view with the ediff?
In the p4merge tool the layout for merging 2 files look like the following.
+---------------+--------------+
| | |
| | |
| ...
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Unable to use ediff with emacs and evil due to window configuration
Running emacs 25.2.2 with evil installed and updated from Melpa.
When I run ediff, it asks for usual buffer A and buffer B and then ONLY the ediff buffer in its own frame is visible with 'Type ? for ...
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Find the first difference between two buffers
Given two buffers, how do I find the first character position where their contents differ? E.g. for contents abcdef and abcDeF, the first difference would be at point=4. For abc and ab, it would be at ...
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Is there a way for ediff to compare SVN changes in the head to my local copy?
My company uses SVN, and one of the things I often want to do is compare the differences that someone else checked in without doing an update. For example, if I see someone has committed a new ...
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Does magit when using ediff have a means for moving on the next file when there are multiple files to be diffed?
I am using ediff to get side by side diffs with magit and there seems to be no way to move to the next pair of files, after diffing the current file.
For instance if I use vimdiff for git diff, after ...
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script to Ediff two files in running gui Emacs?
I'm putting together a presentation that involves some live demos in the terminal. In one of the demos, I run a shell script that takes an input file, runs it through an Awk script, and generates a ...
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How to get back to ediff mode from edit mode
Bear with me as I am a neophyte to Emacs. I followed http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/visualise-and-copy-differences-between-files/ to fire up Ediff in Emacs.
It opened two buffers in two windows ...
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make ediff jump to closest difference
I use ediff-revision or vc-ediff to compare the current state of a file respect its working revision. I normally do not want to check the whole file but just the difference at or closest to the ...
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Magit diff working file to commit in log?
How does one ediff a current file--ie working tree--against an arbitrary version in some previous commit?
In this case, I'm interested in pulling in some, but not all, changes from a commit in ...
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How to view ediff (and other) manuals within emacs?
I want to learn how to use a built in package (e.g. ediff). This built-in package has an online manual in html, but presumably this content is also available from within emacs.
How do I view it ...
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Ediff: How to fill missing lines (gap) to achieve vertical alignment? [closed]
Oftentimes there are gaps in a side-by-side differential. That is some lines were added, some were removed. As I currently see it, ediff does not fill this gap by default. Thus, vertical alignment ...
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How to keep cursor position after calling ediff-current-file?
I would like to use ediff-current-file to jump to some of my previous changes/edits. However, when I type 'q' to quit ediff after calling ediff-current-file and navigation (using 'p'/'n'), the cursor ...
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vdiff-refine-all-hunks/ediff-update-diffs in startup eval
I'm having a problem with putting vdiff-refine-all-hunks or ediff-update-diffs into --eval for startup. Take vdiff as example, I'm calling it using:
emacs --eval "(progn (vdiff-files file1 file2) (...
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several ediff sessions in one emacs
f.e. I want to compare 2 pair of files
file1 vs file11
file2 vs file22
For now I run the bash for, loop over 2 file pairs and run emacs 2 times. But it is not so convenient because I can not go back.
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How can I compare two commit diffs in magit?
I want to directly compare the diffs of two commits in emacs (rather than seeing the diff of two trees at given commit points).
A bonus would be being able to use ediff mode to compare the two ...
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Ignore certain changes in Ediff
I have two versions of a file (or buffer) and I'm running ediff to compare them. Some of the changes are irrelevant and I want to ignore them. Specifically, foo has been renamed to bar in places and I ...
