Re: [Diffutils-devel] Add a flag to produce colored output like git's diff-highlight or colordiff

[Jim Meyering]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Ciro Santilli <address@hidden> wrote:
> People WANT this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8800578/colorize-diff-on-the-command-line
> :-)
>
> diff-highlight word highlight preferred.

There is no word-highlighting, yet, but --color (line-coloring) was
added in 3.4. The latest is 3.5.

* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4 (2016-08-08) [stable]

** New features

   diff accepts two new options --color and --palette to generate
   and configure colored output.  --color takes an optional argument
   specifying when to colorize a line: --color=always, --color=auto,
   --color=never.  --palette is used to configure which colors are used.