Christian Brabandt wrote:
> 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
Looks like there is a C++ implementation, no C implementation.
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