On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:35:24 +0100, Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk was rumoured to have said:
On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 01:27, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-01-20 13:27:26 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I'm looking for a graphical (GUI/X) diff command which allows proper X cut and paste. [...]
Have you tried the various emacs diff commands?
Kompare is a really good tool, is part of KDE and works without the hassle of trying to learn Emacs
Some time ago I looked at most of the graphical diff viewers included in Debian, here are the ones that stood out:
* diff-mode in Emacs. Works beautifully with the VC svn backend, but the default colours could be better. Hassle? What hassle? :P
* tkdiff (http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkdiff/). Can highlight changed regions within a line (see screenshot) and not take forever to do it. Cannot load an existing patch, files to be diffed must be passed on the command line or in a gui dialog.
* colordiff (http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/). Handy diff colouriser for your favourite terminal app, use like so: diff -u old new | colordiff | less -R
Mgdiff and meld are ok too, the latter being very slow with large files.
I'll have a look at kompare sometime, although I don't use KDE and would rather not load all these libraries and kdeinit processes...
Matt
rgrds, /-sb.