[ale] diff being boneheaded

[Derek Atkins]

Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> writes:

> `diff -w` will ignore whitespace entirely. this will solve problems with
> trailing spaces, spaces-vs-tabs, non printing spaces, etc.

Except I think using -w, diff it will also consider:

a bout
  and
about

as the same, which might not be what you want.

-derek

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