On Jan 16, 3:39 pm, Chris Lott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As discussed recently in a parallel thread, if you have flowing > >> text where paragraphs are reflowed inserting linebreaks (rather than > >> your paragraphs being all on one line), it's not quite as useful. > >> For that, you might investigate "wdiff" to compare the files. > > > Hmm. Haven't encountered the concept of "flowing" text previously. > > I believe my paragraphs have two linebreaks between them. > > I believe "flowing text" is referring not to the line breaks between > paragraphs, but having paragraphs each be one long line of text > (rather than breaking each line with a line break as the quoted text > above does), which is sometimes (often?) the preferred mode when > working with prose. >
Both wrong :-) I assume this thread was what Tim was referring to: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/1cf354d1763446bf Specifically, changing something like this: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. To something like this, will not diff very usefully if you're not interested in whitespace/linebreaks, as is likely in prose: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
