Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[Uday Reddy]

On 2/28/2011 3:58 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> FWIW, to come back to Emacs, diff-mode and smerge-mode both
> support word-grained highlighting of differences, so while the diff
> hunks and merge conflicts will include whole paragraphs rather than just
> lines, the `refine'd highlighting will let you see which parts have
> really changed.  I implemented this specifically to address this problem
> when working with LaTeX documents.

Fantastic, thanks very much Stefan.  I would like to point out that the 
refined highlighting is extremely useful for me to work with code as 
well.  It allows me to do reformatting and reindenting and such things 
without worrying about too many useless diffs showing up.  It would be 
even better if white space diffs are completely ignored by Emacs.

Cheers,
Uday