From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:17:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Understanding and improving --word-diff
Message-ID: <20101110041705.GB8955@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1011100102540.2226@bonsai2>

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:05:56AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > Yeah, as you figured out, word diff is really about formats that aren't 
> > line oriented.
> 
> Not really correct. While the _current_ way to show word diffs is 
> imitating GNU wdiff, the internal data structure does allow for more 
> sophisticated output.

Fair enough. I was basing my statement on the output. If somebody would
like to demonstrate how the code can be used to get line-oriented diffs
with highlighting, I would be very happy to eat my words. :)

> P.S.: Peff, I hope you're fine with me responding to the first sentence 
> only. After all, you know that my attention span is 7.2 seconds.

Heh. I am happy you responded at all. You are very quiet these days. :)

-Peff