Hi Allen,
I don't know if this is possible with BBEdit alone.
But you could do it in a terminal with the help of command line utilities
diff <https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/> and aha
<https://github.com/theZiz/aha>, generating a colored HTML file.
Install Diffutils and Aha:
% brew install diffutils
% brew install aha
Run this command in Teminal with your files:
% diff -y --color=always ~/Desktop/A.txt ~/Desktop/B.txt | aha
--stylesheet > ~/Desktop/output.html
Within BBEdit with a differences window in the foreground with the help of
Applescript:
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*if* *class* *of* *front* *window* = *differences window* *then*
*set* vFileA *to* POSIX path *of* ((*file* *of* *first* *document*
*of* *front* *window*) *as* *string*)
*set* vFileB *to* POSIX path *of* ((*file* *of* *second* *document*
*of* *front* *window*) *as* *string*)
*set* vCommand *to* "/opt/homebrew/bin/diff -y --color=always" &
space & *the* quoted form *of* vFileA & space & *the* quoted form *of*
vFileB & space & "| /opt/homebrew/bin/aha --stylesheet >
~/Desktop/output.html"
*do shell script* (vCommand)
*do shell script* "open ~/Desktop/output.html"
*end* *if*
*end* *tell*
HTH
Jean Jourdain
On Monday, February 26, 2024 at 10:17:37 PM UTC+1 Allen Watson wrote:
> I love the ability to find the differences between two text files. I would
> really like to have a printed version of the result, showing the
> differences, so that I could pass out a handout to students in my class.
>
> Is it possible somehow to print the differences? Just printing only prints
> the panel at the bottom, not the two side-by-side texts. A screen shot
> seems to lose the highlighting that shows the differences.
>
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