[lug] highlighting word-by-word differences?

Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Tue Sep 9 15:57:06 MDT 2003


Well, this is probably overkill, but I made a comment on bug 68537 as
referenced, and wrote a new one against diffutils:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104107

thinking that a whole new package would seem to just complicate things.

-Neal

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:31:50PM -0600, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> > Looks like Red Hat knows all about it:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68537
> >
> > Unfortunately, the bug is 1 year old tomorrow (timely), and twaugh
> > doesn't seem to be caring too much.  If you've figured out how to get
> > wdiff to work on Red Hat, it'd be good to add it to the Bugzilla.
> 
> This Mandrake cooker RPM
> (http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/i586/wdiff-0.5-5mdk.i586.html)
> installed cleanly for me on a somewhat modified (several unofficial RPMs,
> mostly from FreshRPMs) RH9 box.
> 
> pdiff works (very nicely!) with this wdiff bin.
> 
> -Peter



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