Bug#307827: wdiff / colordiff: word highlighting would also be good

2012-05-25 Thread A. Costa
On Wed, 23 May 2012 13:47:22 +1000 (EST) Tim Connors tim.w.conn...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried it? Yes, and wrongly, on Tuesday -- fortunately your reply showed my mistake. (My 'wdiff -a' input was two versions of a 'man' page that had some control characters in it, which 'less' didn't

Bug#307827: wdiff / colordiff: word highlighting would also be good

2012-05-22 Thread A. Costa
Only after the bug was closed did I read T. Connors' post, from 3/14/2008: Also give wdiff a shot 'wdiff -a' can be used perhaps to highlight those words. Not on my system: % dlocate -s wdiff | grep Ver Version: 1.1.0-2 % man wdiff | grep -A 1 '\-a,'

Bug#307827: wdiff / colordiff: word highlighting would also be good

2012-05-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 22 May 2012, A. Costa wrote: Only after the bug was closed did I read T. Connors' post, from 3/14/2008: Also give wdiff a shot 'wdiff -a' can be used perhaps to highlight those words. Not on my system: % dlocate -s wdiff | grep Ver Version: 1.1.0-2 % man

Bug#307827: wdiff

2012-03-22 Thread Dave Ewart
Just to clarify, the 'wdiff' approach is the best approach available here. There are no plans to extend colordiff to perform that operation natively. Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@sungate.co.uk, jabber:da...@jabber.org, freenode:davee All email from me is now digitally signed,

Bug#307827: wdiff

2008-03-13 Thread Tim Connors
Also give wdiff a shot 'wdiff -a' can be used perhaps to highlight those words. -- TimC The thing I love most about deadlines is the wonderful WHOOSHing sound they make as they go past - DNA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL