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Ediff in emacs
Authored by: sanandak on Feb 17, '03 02:31:07PM

If you use emacs, give ediff a try. Colored highlighting of difference regions and the ability to update one file from the other. You can also compare 3 files. With undo.



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Ediff in emacs
Authored by: g_spelvin on Feb 17, '03 09:01:26PM

Just to add more details:

Emacs lets you do diffs on regions, as opposed to just on files, so you can focus on areas of special interest and leave the confusion of the rest of the file untouched (this also implies that you can diff regions within the same file). It's also possible to refocus a diff marked section, or even explicitly choose to do a diff down to word level coloring, which is very handy.



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