Annoying misalignment

[MSpagni]

While comparing a couple of c files with the "ignore comments" option checked, I met an odd and unexpected misalignment.
The manual correction is easy but I don't understand why EDP can't do it automatically.
If they are many the thing becomes quickly annoying.

For your convenience I add a screenshot and the two c snippets.

[psguru]

This is what I get. Obviously, our options do not match.

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[MSpagni]

Obvious! What else?
Please find my config here attached.

[psguru]

Thanks, we'll look into this. It's tricky though, and we may not have a good solution (there's a way to explain your results but I'm not going to get into that). One way to make this look better is to ignore blank lines.

[psguru]

After some analysis, it appears that EDP works correctly. In your example, since blank lines are not ignored, lines 15 (which becomes blank after ignoring C-style comments) and 13 are matched as identical (both are blank), and all ignored lines are misaligned as a result of this.

To make a more obvious case, take a look at the slightly modified example:

ExamDiff 2.png (156.99 KiB) Viewed 12826 times

The same lines are aligned but this time the alignment is more obvious.

[MSpagni]

Gosh, I must say that I had to wait a moment of calm to grasp what you were saying.
I admit that, as expected, there is a logic behind it, but let me say it's far from intuitive.

[psguru]

Well, no everything is intuitive in this world, unfortunately.