Re: Integrating wdiff into diff

[Bruce Korb]

Denver Gingerich wrote:

> It seems to me that it would be best to default to wdiff-style output
> only if a line is more than 80 characters long, for example, and have
> a command-line option to modify the default (ie.
> --wdiff-min-cols=120).  This would cause diff to behave the same as it
> currently does with most source code because most source code has
> lines of no more than 80 characters.  Does this seem like reasonable
> behavior?

I'm not exactly sure where you come across your source code,
but most of it that I see goes past 80.  Often way, way, way past.
Few diff handling tools understand anything other than the basic formats.
So, no, it isn't a good default.  :(  It should be by request.
Thank you.

Cheers - Bruce