From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:57:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add the --color-words option to the diff options family
Message-ID: <E1G6zc4-0007PC-9j@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607282354450.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> With this option, the changed words are shown inline. For example,
> if a file containing "This is foo" is changed to "This is bar", the diff
> will now show "This is " in plain text, "foo" in red, and "bar" in green.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> ---
> 
> 	I am probably the only person who finds it useful, but there
> 	is a high coolness factor attached to it.
> 
> 	And the libxdiff library actually made it very easy to do. (Yes, 
> 	there are two nested calls to xdiff...)
I'd probably find it more useful if it would still show two lines but
only the relevant part in red/green.