In message <slrnid0pgs.1028.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:
> The question is *why* diff has that option. > > The answer is because whitespace changes (spaces to tabs, different > tab stops, etcetera) are an extremely common failure mode, such that > it's quite common for files to end up with unintentional whitespace > changes. Except the diff option is to *ignore* such differences, not highlight them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
