On May 18, 2023 3:16:34 p.m. EDT, Omar Polo <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2023/05/18 11:08:54 +0200, NilsOla Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 07:03:22PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
>> > 
>> > still in doubt if it's useful to waste spaces on the mirrors for a
>> > debug package for this.
>> 
>> There is also dwdiff in ports, which is probably
>> better. From the manpage:
>> dwdiff is mostly command-line compatible with wdiff
>
>I've missed that, thanks!
>
>I couldn't make it highlight the difference as wdiff does without "|
>less" but it's not a big deal, and more importantly it doesn't crash
>out of the box!
>
>At this point I'm wondering whether we should remove wdiff and just
>point users to dwdiff...
>

I have not tried dwdiff, but if it can't highlight differences in less output, 
I would definitely miss that feature. I find it hard to see where the 
differences are unless they stand out like that; otherwise it's just a jumble 
of text.
-- 
James

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