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Article #2691how to diff para oriented text
From: David R. Strip
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 22:30
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 22:30
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Can someone point me to a utility, or set of magic flags for diff that would allow useful diff'ing of files that are paragraph oriented (e.g., TeX input). If you diff files that have been line wrapped, but otherwise unchanged you get all kinds of "wrong" diffs in terms of what I want. One crude hack would be to create intermediate files of one word per line, then use diff, but this would be pretty ugly and lose a lot of context (visually, at lesat) Thanks strip drstrip@cs.sandia.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!unmvax!intvax!drstrip From: drstrip@intvax.UUCP (David R. Strip) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: how to diff para oriented text Message-ID: <3737@intvax.UUCP> Date: 9 Apr 91 22:30:06 GMT Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM Lines: 13