Can someone tell me an easy way to find differences between two files. The difference finding command appears to only find the lines that do not match. If you have two lines that are 500 characters long with only one "a" replaced by a "e" the Find Differences command is of little use. I know I could probably write a scrip to do the job, but I would think that such a basic compare command would be "native".
There is no easy way I know of to do this in BBEdit.
A trick I've used on occasion is to search and replace all space/tab sequences with carriage return, then diff that to find where the difference is, then undo. Not exactly pleasant, but sometimes useful.
Hopefully someone has a better solution than this... It's been a long time request with BB to at least highlight the differences in the line somehow.
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