[lug] highlighting word-by-word differences?

[Neal McBurnett]

Thanks for the pointer (and to Ken Weinert).

The one from gnu.org is circa 1994, and core dumped on me after
compiling with some warnings.

I don't see it in rh9.

It is in debian:
 http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/wdiff.html

Applying the "diff" patch referenced on that page worked fine and it
runs surprisingly quickly on a pair of 80-page files.

Some hints for highlighting with nroff or latex are at
 http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/gnudocs/gnudocs/wdiff/wdiff_toc.html

Ahh - the power of open source and a helpful community....

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:29:04PM -0700, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> > Are there any good open source tools out there, like diff, but which
> > focus on changes at the word-by-word level and just highlight the
> > words that are different?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/wdiff.html
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/wdiff-0.5.tar.gz
> 
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