Meld for plain text documents

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> I was wondering if you have considered adding features to Meld to make it 
> useful for comparing text documents as well as source code. For example, when 
> text changes span multiple lines, depending on word wrap, traditional diff 
> fontends don't do justice. Ie:
> 
>     This is a paragraph. It begins on one line,
> and then wraps to the second.
> 
>     This is a different paragraph. It begins
> on one line and then wraps to the second.
> 
> These two paragraphs only differ in one word ("different"), yet traditional 
> diffs mark up both lines. Any ideas for programs to
> try? Thanks.

I think gnu wdiff will do what you want. To be honest this has pretty
low priority at the moment as there is still much to do with respect to
source code diffing.

Regards,
Stephen.
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Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>
http://meld.sf.net visual diff and merge