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From: tzs AT tzs DOT net (Tim Smith)
Subject: Re: colored diff
15 Oct 1998 12:59:06 -0700 :
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981015004228.28341A-100000.cygnus.gnu-win32@52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net>
References: <199810140957 DOT LAA07400 AT gilberto DOT physik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>
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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> A bit off-topic but maybe someone knows a solution:
> 
> I'm looking a  (gnu) diff program, that is capable of highlighting
> the differences between two files.

If you do a context diff into a file (diff -c file1 file2 > output) and
then view the output with vim (or gvim) with syntax highlighting enabled,
it will color various interesting things.

--Tim Smith

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