Hallo Bram!

Bram Moolenaar schrieb am Sonntag, den 15. Januar 2012:

> 
> Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> 
> > Am 13.01.2012 um 15:46 schrieb Taylor Hedberg:
> > 
> > > I'm not sure you can. According to `:help diff-diffexpr`, Vim requires
> > > the output of the diff program to be an "ed-style" diff, which is
> > > fundamentally linewise. Maybe you could come up with a wrapper script
> > > that would mangle wdiff's output into ed format, but even if possible,
> > > that seems like it would be error-prone and probably more trouble than
> > > it's worth.
> > 
> > I see your point.
> > 
> > Interestingly, it seems that word wise diffs are not that much
> > needed/wanted for Vim.
> 
> It's not that they are not wanted, it's that there is no standard syntax
> for an external diff program output unless it's by lines.
> 
> I would love to include a better diff library in Vim, but still haven't
> found a good one that could be included with Vim.

I thought, I mention the diff-match-patch by Neil Fraser¹, that has been 
mentioned the last time² this topic has been discussed here.

That looks like a nice addition, if something like this can be included 
into Vim.

¹http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/
²http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/8a588d748b2d7d60

regards,
Christian
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