There are lots of trailing whitespaces on those lines (looking at the raw email). Retry with "diff -w" to ignore whitespace diffs. 2015-03-22 14:47 GMT+01:00 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf > <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for some time past I often need to replace diff with meld, since diff is > > going nuts. > > > > > Did you check with hexdump, in case you have MS-DOS newlines, > different unicode spaces or other artifacts in the file? > > cheers! > mar77i >