From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 07:10:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (compare-windows): Make leading whitespace equivalent
X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~8152
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a534851893ffbd264a8dd2622169daee6a78f25;p=emacs.git

(compare-windows): Make leading whitespace equivalent
to no leading whitespace, according to IGNORE-WHITESPACE argument.
---

diff --git a/lisp/compare-w.el b/lisp/compare-w.el
index 717974b364b..4987f9abc1b 100644
--- a/lisp/compare-w.el
+++ b/lisp/compare-w.el
@@ -99,9 +99,10 @@ If `compare-ignore-case' is non-nil, changes in case are also ignored."
 			 (compare-windows-skip-whitespace opoint2)
 		       (funcall skip-whitespace opoint2)))
 	       (setq p2a (point))
-	       (and result1 result2 (eq result1 result2)
-		    (setq p1 p1a
-			  p2 p2a)))))
+	       (if (or (stringp skip-whitespace)
+		       (and result1 result2 (eq result1 result2)))
+		   (setq p1 p1a
+			 p2 p2a)))))
 
       ;; Try advancing comparing 1000 chars at a time.
       ;; When that fails, go 500 chars at a time, and so on.