[TxMt] Compare text files based on words, not lines?

[Charley Tiggs]

Christoph,

I'm sad to say that, for that kind of comparison, I turn to either 
BBEdit or TextWrangler from Barebones Software:

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.shtml

TextWrangler is free and does what you're looking for very nicely 
without having to come up with a script or command to do it.

Charley

Christoph Prion wrote:
> Hello all
> I am new to Textmate and this list but so far really impressed by the
> program and the people posting here. My background is in molecular
> biology and I will mostly use TM for text (MultiMarkdown is appealing
> to me) not so much code.
> 
> Although I am slowly making my way through the manual I have not found
> anything that would allow me to compare two textfiles and highlight
> changes between them. "Diff" is not what I am loooking for because it
> is based on lines. Writing manuscripts I don't use carriage returns so
> a single difference in a paragraph will highlight the whole thing not
> just the difference only.
> FileMerge (in the Apple developer tools) is much closer and also
> visually intuitive, but getting long in the teeth and having
> difficulties with UTF-8.
> 
> Is there a Textmate bundle that will do this kind of comparison for me?
> 
> My sincere apologies if this question has been answered already,
> 
> Christoph
> 
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