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diff --git a/lisp/ediff-diff.el b/lisp/ediff-diff.el
index ac26f522b5d..3311977d581 100644
--- a/lisp/ediff-diff.el
+++ b/lisp/ediff-diff.el
@@ -45,6 +45,42 @@
:group 'ediff)
+;; The following functions needed for setting diff/diff3 options
+;; test if diff supports the --binary option
+(defsubst ediff-test-utility (diff-util option &optional files)
+ (zerop (apply 'call-process
+ (append (list diff-util nil nil nil option) files))))
+
+(defun ediff-diff-mandatory-option (diff-util)
+ (let ((file (if (boundp 'null-device) null-device "/dev/null")))
+ (cond ((not (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt windows-95)))
+ "")
+ ((and (string= diff-util ediff-diff-program)
+ (ediff-test-utility
+ ediff-diff-program "--binary" (list file file)))
+ "--binary")
+ ((and (string= diff-util ediff-diff3-program)
+ (ediff-test-utility
+ ediff-diff3-program "--binary" (list file file file)))
+ "--binary")
+ (t ""))))
+
+;; make sure that mandatory options are added even if the user changes
+;; ediff-diff-options or ediff-diff3-options in the customization widget
+(defun ediff-reset-diff-options (symb val)
+ (let* ((diff-program
+ (if (eq symb 'ediff-diff-options)
+ ediff-diff-program
+ ediff-diff3-program))
+ (mandatory-option (ediff-diff-mandatory-option diff-program))
+ (spacer (if (string-equal mandatory-option "") "" " ")))
+ (set symb
+ (if (string-match mandatory-option val)
+ val
+ (concat mandatory-option spacer val)))
+ ))
+
+
(defcustom ediff-shell
(cond ((eq system-type 'emx) "cmd") ; OS/2
((memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt windows-95))
@@ -76,11 +112,12 @@ ignore changes whose lines all match RE."
"*Program to use for generating the differential of the two files."
:type 'string
:group 'ediff-diff)
-(defcustom ediff-diff-options ""
+(defcustom ediff-diff-options ""
"*Options to pass to `ediff-diff-program'.
If diff\(1\) is used as `ediff-diff-program', then the most useful options are
`-w', to ignore space, and `-i', to ignore case of letters.
At present, the option `-c' is not allowed."
+ :set 'ediff-reset-diff-options
:type 'string
:group 'ediff-diff)
@@ -105,6 +142,7 @@ Must produce output compatible with Unix's diff3 program."
:group 'ediff-diff)
(defcustom ediff-diff3-options ""
"*Options to pass to `ediff-diff3-program'."
+ :set 'ediff-reset-diff-options
:type 'string
:group 'ediff-diff)
(defcustom ediff-diff3-ok-lines-regexp
@@ -1173,8 +1211,7 @@ Used for splitting difference regions into individual words.")
"*Characters constituting white space.
These characters are ignored when differing regions are split into words.")
-;;(defvar ediff-word-1 "a-zA-Z---_`'.?!:"
-(defvar ediff-word-1 "a-zA-Z---_"
+(defvar ediff-word-1 "\\(a-zA-Z---_\\|\w\\)"
"*Characters that constitute words of type 1.
More precisely, [ediff-word-1] is a regexp that matches type 1 words.
See `ediff-forward-word' for more details.")
@@ -1201,9 +1238,11 @@ See `ediff-forward-word' for more details.")
"Move point one word forward.
There are four types of words, each of which consists entirely of
characters in `ediff-word-1', `ediff-word-2', `ediff-word-3', or
-`ediff-word-4'. Words are recognized by passing these in turn as the
-argument to `skip-chars-forward'."
- (or (> (skip-chars-forward ediff-word-1) 0)
+`ediff-word-4'. Words are recognized by passing these one after another as
+arguments to `skip-chars-forward'."
+ (or (> (+ (skip-chars-forward ediff-word-1)
+ (skip-syntax-forward "w"))
+ 0)
(> (skip-chars-forward ediff-word-2) 0)
(> (skip-chars-forward ediff-word-3) 0)
(> (skip-chars-forward ediff-word-4) 0)