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From: drstrip@intvax.UUCP (David R. Strip)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: how to diff para oriented text
Message-ID: <3737@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 22:30:06 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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Can someone point me to a utility, or set of
magic flags for diff that would allow useful
diff'ing of files that are paragraph oriented
(e.g., TeX input). If you diff files that have
been line wrapped, but otherwise unchanged you
get all kinds of "wrong" diffs in terms of what
I want. One crude hack would be to create
intermediate files of one word per line, then
use diff, but this would be pretty ugly and
lose a lot of context (visually, at lesat)
Thanks
strip
drstrip@cs.sandia.gov