Bug 188364 - Ignore White Space Option on capare screen of preferences not working
Summary: Ignore White Space Option on capare screen of preferences not working
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Target Management
Classification: Tools
Component: RSE (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: dsdp.tm.rse-inbox CLA
QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber CLA
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Depends on: 188883
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Reported: 2007-05-22 12:18 EDT by Rupen Mardirossian CLA
Modified: 2012-11-19 04:57 EST (History)
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Description Rupen Mardirossian CLA 2007-05-22 12:18:14 EDT 
When selecting to ignore white space on the compare/patch screen of the preferences menu and compareing two text files(one containing white space), the option does not function how it is suppose to.

Repilcate:

1. go to window>preference, then  General>Compare/Patch 
2. Select the Ignore White space 
3. Create two text files, one containing the word "test" on the first line.  The other with the first line containing the word test, the second containing spaces and the third containing the word "test".
4. compare the two files


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TM 2.0M7 Testing
installation : eclipse-SDK-3.3M7 
RSE install  : RSE-SDK-2.0M7
java.runtime : Sun 1.5.0_06-b05
os.name:     : Windows XP 5.1, Service Pack 2
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Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-05-22 12:39:33 EDT 
Did you check if it works in the Platform, i.e. on two files in the local Eclipse Workspace? Perhaps it's a Platform bug.
Comment 2 Rupen Mardirossian CLA 2007-05-22 12:53:11 EDT 
I have checked if the ignore works on the Platform, and it does not.  It is a platform bug as mentioned by Martin.

Thanks
Comment 3 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-05-24 07:35:05 EDT 
I filed bug #188883 against the Platform to track the issue.

I found that the "Ignore Whitespace" preference does work after quit and re-start of Eclipse, but it should be enabled immediately. At least I think it was applied immediately in previous versions of Eclipse, so this may be a regression.