Re: Understanding and improving --word-diff

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:16:01PM +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:

quoted

E.g., I would like to see:

-a <r>b</r> c
+a <g>x</g> c

Unfortunately, all --word-diff types currently departs from line-based 
- and + lines and show the new version of the file with the changed 
words (both old and new versions) shown inline, marked with coloring 
or {- ...  -} kind of syntax. E.g., with --word-diff=color, the above 
would look like:

a <r>b</r><g>x</g> c

Personally, I think that the first example above is easier to read 
than the second one (at least for diffs of code).

Yeah, as you figured out, word diff is really about formats that aren't 
line oriented.

Not really correct. While the _current_ way to show word diffs is 
imitating GNU wdiff, the internal data structure does allow for more 
sophisticated output.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: Peff, I hope you're fine with me responding to the first sentence 
only. After all, you know that my attention span is 7.2 seconds.

Some people taught me to put a smiley after such a statement, so: ;-)