Re: ediff & No newline at end of file

[Kevin Rodgers]

sandro dentella wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I'm a happy user of ediff, both for diff and  merge. What I have
> not been able to to
>   and I really need is to configure it  _NOT_  to complain about
> missing newline ad the
>   end of a file.
>
>   I frequently need to compare files and I really don't mind if they
> have a final newline or not.
>   It's ok a warning but I want it to go ahead and show the differences
> while now
>   I just see a single buffer with the warning and no ediff windows/
> panel.

Hmmm, it seems like it ought to do the right thing out of the box:

,----[ C-h v ediff-diff-ok-lines-regexp RET ]
| ediff-diff-ok-lines-regexp is a variable defined in `ediff-diff.el'.
| Its value is
| "^\\([0-9,]+[acd][0-9,]+
?$\\|[<>] \\|---\\|.*Warning *:\\|.*No +newline\\|.*missing +newline\\|^
?$\\)"
|
|
| Documentation:
| Regexp that matches normal output lines from `ediff-diff-program'.
| This is mostly lifted from Emerge, except that Ediff also considers
| warnings and `Missing newline'-type messages to be normal output.
| Lines that do not match are assumed to be error messages.
|
| [back]
`----

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA