8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
10:40 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Another small point about this: consider that `diff` et al prepend
special characters to the beginning of a line in their output. So if
one wants to run e.g., `diff -u a.c b.c`, and the line-length limit in
a source file is 80 characters, then won't one see a non-trivial
amount of either wrap-around or truncation in diff output? This,
again, begs the question of why not use a shorter line-length limit
than the presumed maximum screen width?
- Dan C.
[..]
And I made the point about side by side diff tools.
But what about 3-way merge tools?