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
