On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, martin f krafft wrote:

> Package: wdiff
> Version: 0.5-16
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> If using wdiff on TeX files, it's really annoying if a change
> involves attached TeX tags. E.g.:
> 
>   This 
> link\footnote{\link{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/{\tilde}sgtatham/bugs.html}}
> 
> If I wanted to capitalise link, wdiff would say that
> 
>   
> link\footnote{\link{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/{\tilde}sgtatham/bugs.html}}
> 
> was deleted and  
> 
>   
> Link\footnote{\link{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/{\tilde}sgtatham/bugs.html}}
> 
> added. It should just know that [^[:alnum:]] marks the end of
> a word.

Hmm, no, it should not, because the behaviour matches documentation,
namely, a word is anything between whitespace.

It is a little bit late to change the behaviour of this program.
Instead, why don't you wdiff the result of running dvi2tty on the .dvi files?


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