Merge from origin/emacs-26

74a3a79 (origin/emacs-26) Fix a typo in a doc string
911766d Minor markup fix in frames.texi
19ed1e9 * lisp/net/trampver.el (customize-package-emacs-version-alist...
d7132ad * lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el (customize-package-emacs-version-alist): ...
5f39260 * lisp/emacs-lisp/map-ynp.el (map-y-or-n-p): Pass format to m...
a291f62 Don't call xwidget functions until GTK has been initialized
f0531b8 Improve documentation of Ediff wordwise commands
2925ce5 Support Hunspell 1.7.0 in ispell.el
03bb7a8 Avoid clearing echo-area message by auto-save-visited-file-name

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/ediff.texi b/doc/misc/ediff.texi
index 746c4c829d2..cce8321d9eb 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ediff.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/ediff.texi
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ ancestors.  Ediff selects only the files that are under version control.
 
 @item ediff-windows-wordwise
 @findex ediff-windows-wordwise
-Compare windows word-by-word.
+Compare text visible in 2 windows word-by-word.
 
 @item ediff-windows-linewise
 @findex ediff-windows-linewise
-Compare windows line-by-line.
+Compare text visible in 2 windows line-by-line.
 
 @item ediff-regions-wordwise
 @findex ediff-regions-wordwise
@@ -373,13 +373,12 @@ The commands @code{ediff-windows-wordwise},
 @code{ediff-windows-linewise}, @code{ediff-regions-wordwise} and
 @code{ediff-regions-linewise} do comparison on parts of existing Emacs
 buffers.  The commands @code{ediff-windows-wordwise} and
-@code{ediff-regions-wordwise} are intended for relatively small segments
-of buffers (e.g., up to 100 lines, depending on the speed of your machine),
+@code{ediff-regions-wordwise} could be slow on very large buffers,
 as they perform comparison on the basis of words rather than lines.
-(Word-wise comparison of large chunks of text can be slow.)
+(Word-wise comparison of large chunks of text is relatively expensive.)
 
-To compare large regions, use @code{ediff-regions-linewise}.  This
-command displays differences much like @code{ediff-files} and
+To compare very large regions, use @code{ediff-regions-linewise}.
+This command displays differences much like @code{ediff-files} and
 @code{ediff-buffers}.
 
 The functions @code{ediff-patch-file} and @code{ediff-patch-buffer} apply a