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

James Edward Gray II james at grayproductions.net
Tue Jan 16 15:38:58 UTC 2007


On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Dave Baldwin wrote:

>
> On 16 Jan 2007, at 14:42, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Charley Tiggs wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm sure we could come up with a script, with a little effort.
>>
>> In trying to see what you were after, I opened TM, types lorem  
>> tab, and saved a file.  I then changed one word and saved a second  
>> file.  I went into FileMerge and compared the two.  In those  
>> results I couldn't even figure out how to see all the text I wrote  
>> (needed a horizontal scroller).  What am I missing?
>
> In preferences tick show wraped text.

Ah, gotcha.

Would we prefer that, or how some wikis do it, placing the old term  
just before the new term and crossing it out?

James Edward Gray II



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