I don't need a pretty graphical display, but I would like the output to be improved.
The output from diff is quite easy to understand both for humans, and for machines (GNU patch reads a diff, and applies it to the source code for example). GNU diff can output many formats, depending on what is easier to grok for a specific task, unified diff's (-u) are nice for source code, side-by-side diff's (-y) are wonderful for text. The GNU diff manual has a clear description on how to read both these formats, including the default one, and some other formats that I don't remeber. For unified diffs you cannot get a format that is simpler, a + means an added line, a - means a removed line, and anything else is simply not touched. The manual for diff ((diff)Detailed Unified) describes this quite well. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
