Re: Fwd: possible Improving diff algoritm

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Is there a reason why picking among the choices in a sliding window
must be contents neutral?

Sorry, you might be getting at something interesting but I do not
understand the question.  I have no idea what you mean by "contents
neutral".

I was merely asking if an algorithm to pick between the
2+ choices was allowed to look at the contents of the
lines.

I.e., an algorithm would look at the C comment
example and determine that the choice starting containing
a full inserted comment is preferable over the one that
appears to close one comment and open a new.

And the in inserted-function case it would prefer the one
where the matching { and } are in correct order.

Morten