On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 03:42:19PM -0400, James Cook wrote: > 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
dwdiff seems to have this feature: I just tried it briefly, but it looks like got diff | dwdiff -ul | less is a replacement for got diff | wdiff -ad or got diff | wdiff -dl | less So my first impression is I won't miss wdiff. Thanks Nils! -- James
