Hello.
I received this from the Debian BTS (this is the last one for now).
I've checked and wdiff 1.1.0 still behaves the same.
Thanks.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alan Curry <pac...@kosh.dhis.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:47:33 -0500
Subject: Bug#650792: excess spaces in wdiff of column-based files
Resent-Sender: Santiago Vila <sanv...@master.debian.org>
Package: wdiff
Version: 0.6.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
wdiff produces some strange-looking output when comparing text aligned in
columns.
$ cat file1
A B
AA B
AAA B
AAAA B
AAAAA B
AAAAAA B
AAAAAAA B
AAAAAAAA B
AAAAAAAAA B
$ cat file2
A C
AA C
AAA C
AAAA C
AAAAA C
AAAAAA C
AAAAAAA C
AAAAAAAA C
AAAAAAAAA C
$ wdiff file1 file2
A [-B-] {+C+}
AA [-B-] {+C+}
AAA [-B-] {+C+}
AAAA [-B-] {+C+}
AAAAA [-B-] {+C+}
AAAAAA [-B-] {+C+}
AAAAAAA [-B-] {+C+}
AAAAAAAA [-B-] {+C+}
AAAAAAAAA [-B-] {+C+}
$
I can't think of any reasoning that supports the need for multiple spaces
after the [-B-], since the actual spaces in the input file are only to the
left of the B.
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