[TxMt] Compare text files based on words not lines

[Christoph Prion]

Mark

ooops. For some reason  am having a rough start here on this list
because I never see the the mails I am posting myself turning up in my
inbox. This is why I sent my very first message (ahem) about five
times...I made doubly sure that "receive your own message from the
list" was checked.

Sorry if you felt ignored after replying to that other thread. There
are two kind of problems. First, diacritics (ä, ü, é) are not
displayed corrrectly. This is probably solvable but I haven't
investigated. Second type of problem I have outlined in my last post.
In short, it is the fact that FileMerge (just like the other tools)
becomes very generous about the size of the context in which changes
exist between the files. Third (nobody expects the Spanish
inquisition!) when dealing with large files, the trailing edge regions
of the file FileMerge displays contain many errors and also parts that
both documents have, are missing in FileMerge.
I don't exactly know if this is triggered by the files being UTF-8
encoded. I happened to realize it first with UTF-8 files and this put
me off enough to exclude FileMerge from further testing although I
liked it visually very much.

On Wikipedia it is mentioned that Filemerge expects encoding Roman.
I'd be glad to hear your comments on this and recommendations on how
to solve the diacritics problem.

Thanks
Christoph


On 1/16/07, Mark Eli Kalderon <eli at markelikalderon.com> wrote:
> I use the FileMerge bundle. What problems are you experiencing with
> UTF-8? If it is a problem, there is a diff frontend wdiff that yields
> word differences. It can be found on Fink. It should be relatively
> easy to build a word difference bundle around it. All the best, Mark
> On 16 Jan 2007, at 09:59, 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
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > For new threads USE THIS: textmate at lists.macromates.com
> > (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)
> > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> For new threads USE THIS: textmate at lists.macromates.com
> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)
> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
>