dwdiff
dwdiff is a front-end for the diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level. It is different from wdiff in that it allows the user to specify what should be considered whitespace, and in that it takes an optional list of characters that should be considered delimiters. Delimiters are single characters that are treated as if they are words, even when there is no whitespace separating them from preceding words or delimiters. dwdiff is mostly commandline compatible with wdiff. The default output from dwdiff is the new text, with the deleted and inserted parts annotated with markers. Command line options are available to change both what is printed and the markers.
| Tags | Text Processing |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unix |
Recent releases
- 02 Dec 2008 15:22
Changes: The difference algorithm has been improved such that it gives better results for large changes with frequently occurring words.
- 08 Jul 2008 10:48
Changes: Unicode support was added as well as an option to treat all punctuation characters as delimiters.
- 20 Dec 2007 03:36
Changes: A new option was added for showing the line numbers from the old and the new file along with an option that shows several lines of context around changes but skips large common blocks of text.
- 03 Nov 2006 01:56
Changes: This release fixes a bug in resetting the color on 64-bit platforms.
- 29 Aug 2006 14:11
Changes: This release adds color mode and gettext support. A Dutch translation is included.
