I have used diff for many years and could not get along without it. However, I have three suggestions that would be helpful to me (and maybe others):
1. Similar to the "exclude" options for recursive operations, develop a set of "include" options. That would help for many common situations where we want a quick look at directory comparisons but only for files ending in, say, /\.txt/. 2. Allow a user-supplied string to separate the two halves of a side-by-side output format. 3. When using side-by-side format, have diff output the length of the longest line found for all the files seen. That would allow us to redo the diff without truncation. I have downloaded the source and will see if I can propose patches, but perhaps these ideas are already being considered or there is an easy work-around. Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA
