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[Kdiff3-user] Problem with menu highlighting on Red Hat Linux

[Skilleter, J. <joh...@ec...>]

I've come across an annoying problem with kdiff3 on Red Hat Linux; A
number of the menu items in the GUI which turn options on or off do not
indicate the current state of the option correctly. This seems to apply
to all on/off menu entries which have icons on the left hand side of the
menu. Those without icons show a tick when the option is turned on or
nothing when it is turned off. Those without icons do not change
appearance.

On kdiff3 on Windows the behaviour is subtly different in that options
which are enabled are highlighted with a paler background under the icon
or the tick, but this isn't happening under Linux and it is all too easy
to run a diff, not realise that the 'Show files only in A' or 'Show
files only in B' options are turned on because there's nothing to
indicate it in the menu and miss something of vital importance!

I've tried it on a couple of PC's, one with KDE and one with Gnome (both
running the same Red Hat) and got the same result - Anyone happen to
have any idea whether this a bug/limitation of the software, or our
particular Linux setup?

Thanks

John Skilleter

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Re: [Kdiff3-user] Restore Down button does not work

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Could you please retry after removing the ".kdiff3rc"-file from your user 
specifics subdir in "Documents and Settings" or whereever your home-dir on 
Win2000 is?
Is it better then?
Joachim

Am Montag 19 November 2007 16:36:59 schrieb Banowetz, Virgil L CTR 
comnavairsyscom:
> I tried kdiff3 on a PC Windows 2000 computer and the "restore down"
> button does not work. It is either maximized of minimized. I tried
> uninstall and run directly  from the .exe with the same result.
>
> On some other PC Windows 2000 computers,  it works fine.
> Virg B

[Kdiff3-user] Christopher P Austin is out of the office.

[Christopher P A. <cha...@us...>]

I will be out of the office starting  11/19/2007 and will not return until
11/26/2007.

Please see Sue Meany, Brian Cowan, or Adam Levensohn for any CC issues.
See Pam Barnard or Nadynne Brady for RFT issues.

[Kdiff3-user] Restore Down button does not work

[Banowetz, V. L C. c. <vir...@na...>]

I tried kdiff3 on a PC Windows 2000 computer and the "restore down"
button does not work. It is either maximized of minimized. I tried
uninstall and run directly  from the .exe with the same result.

On some other PC Windows 2000 computers,  it works fine.
Virg B

Re: [Kdiff3-user] Kdiff3 doesn't ignore -u at its first use

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

I understand. I invested much time in the option to allow user defined opti=
ons=20
that can be ignored, but the defaults are not available when starting the=20
first time.
I shall fix that.
Joachim

Am Montag 15 Oktober 2007 17:51:23 schrieb Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric COIFFIER:
> Hello Joachim,
>
> I found my real problem about options which are not ignored (KDiff3:
> 0.9.92 - KDE: 3.5.7-1.fc6 Fedora - Qt: 3.3.8).
>
> In fact, options which are ignored seems to be stored in ~/.kdiff3rc.
> But, for a virgin account, this file doesn't exist. So, the first time
> kdiff3 is used, it doesn't ignore -u. Kdiff3 must be launched once to
> create this file.
>
> But, I must admit it's a very minor problem...

Re: [Kdiff3-user] mod dates equal but files are not

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi David,

This would only make sense to me, if you mean that the files have binary 
differences, but equal text. Is that so?

Otherwise why would you want a default behaviour for different files?

Joachim



Am Freitag 09 November 2007 23:47:54 schrieb David M. Besonen:
> when running kdiff3, sometimes the targets have many files with
> identical dates and binary differences.  afaict, kdiff3
> requires manual intervention on a per file basis.
>
> this can result in more work than i have time for.
>
> it would be great if kdiff3 had an option that allowed for a
> modifable default action in this circumstance.
>
>
> example
> -------
>
> Default action when modification dates of files are equal but
> the files are not:
>
>  - Prompt (the current default action)
>  - Do nothing
>  - Copy A to B
>  - Copy B to A
>  - Delete A
>  - Delete B
>  - Delete A & B
>  - Merge to A
>  - Merge to B
>  - Merge to A & B
>
>
>
>  -- david
>
>
>
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Re: [Kdiff3-user] windows ver: erratic behavior when mem is low

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi David,

It would interest me a lot to know if the Qt4-version also shows this erratic 
behaviour, especially for multiple instances. Someone else also told me about 
that effect, even though enough ram was still available.

Joachim


Am Sonntag 11 November 2007 19:43:55 schrieb David M. Besonen:
> running kdiff3 0.9.92 on windows 2000 sp4, when available ram
> is low kdiff3 sometimes behaves so erratically that i need to
> kill the process.
>
> interestingly, i think there might be some correlation to
> running multiple instances of kdiff3.
>
> sorry i don't have time (in this moment) to do more testing to
> isolate and describe in more detail exactly what's happening.
>
> maybe this brief report will be helpful in some way to someone
> else who's seen the same behavior.
>
>
>
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Re: [Kdiff3-user] EOL characters

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Am Donnerstag 15 November 2007 19:12:30 schrieb Marc-Antoine Ruel:
> I agree it'd be great. It's probably non-trivial to implement though.

Yes. Previously (version <=0.9.86) KDiff3 could do this.
But since KDiff3 supports several encodings (e.g UTF-8, Unicode etc.)  - which 
was very often asked for - this is not possible any more.
The reason is, that the codecs (within Qt) throw out the "unnecessary" line 
ending characters.

I already investigated methods to reinsert them again after converting to 
unicode, but this is not trivial indeed.

Sorry about that.
Joachim

> 2007/11/15, David M. Besonen <da...@pa...>:
> > afaict when kdiff3 encounters identical text files with
> > different EOL characters this message is displayed:
> >
> >    Files A and B have equal text, but are not binary equal
> >
> >
> > after displaying this message kdiff3 goes on to show lines with
> > different EOL characters as "identical".
> >
> > it would be great if kdiff3 was able to (optionally) display
> > and diff EOL characters.  would this be a significant
> > modification to kdiff3?
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Kdiff3-user] Problem compiling on RHEL4 x86-64

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

It's no big problem, since you probably don't need the docs in all languages.
Just cd to the src-directory and run "make" and "make install" (as root) from 
there.

To install the docs for your language enter the respective language dir (e.g. 
doc/en) and do a "make" and "make install".

Cheers,
Joachim

Am Donnerstag 15 November 2007 20:19:31 schrieb Hagedorn, Dan N:
> All,
>
> I seem to hit a wall while trying to compile Kdiff3 on a RedHat 4 x86_64
> box.  Configure runs correctly and tells me to run make next.  But
> during the make, there is an error I can't get past.
> make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92/doc/nl'
> /usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
> index.docbook:36: parser error : Entity 'Sander.Koning' not defined
> &Sander.Koning;
>                ^
> index.docbook:2311: parser error : Entity 'vertaling.sander' not defined
> &meld.fouten;&vertaling.sander;
>                                ^
> make[3]: *** [index.cache.bz2] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92/doc/nl'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92/doc'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
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[Kdiff3-user] Problem compiling on RHEL4 x86-64

[Hagedorn, D. N <dan...@pn...>]

All,

I seem to hit a wall while trying to compile Kdiff3 on a RedHat 4 x86_64
box.  Configure runs correctly and tells me to run make next.  But
during the make, there is an error I can't get past.
make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92/doc/nl'
/usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
index.docbook:36: parser error : Entity 'Sander.Koning' not defined
&Sander.Koning;=20
               ^
index.docbook:2311: parser error : Entity 'vertaling.sander' not defined
&meld.fouten;&vertaling.sander;=20
                               ^
make[3]: *** [index.cache.bz2] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92/doc/nl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/kdiff3-0.9.92'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan

Re: [Kdiff3-user] EOL characters

[Marc-Antoine R. <ma...@us...>]

I agree it'd be great. It's probably non-trivial to implement though.

2007/11/15, David M. Besonen <da...@pa...>:
> afaict when kdiff3 encounters identical text files with
> different EOL characters this message is displayed:
>
>    Files A and B have equal text, but are not binary equal
>
>
> after displaying this message kdiff3 goes on to show lines with
> different EOL characters as "identical".
>
> it would be great if kdiff3 was able to (optionally) display
> and diff EOL characters.  would this be a significant
> modification to kdiff3?
>
>
>
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[Kdiff3-user] EOL characters

[David M. B. <da...@pa...>]

afaict when kdiff3 encounters identical text files with
different EOL characters this message is displayed:

   Files A and B have equal text, but are not binary equal


after displaying this message kdiff3 goes on to show lines with
different EOL characters as "identical".

it would be great if kdiff3 was able to (optionally) display
and diff EOL characters.  would this be a significant
modification to kdiff3?

[Kdiff3-user] windows ver: erratic behavior when mem is low

[David M. B. <da...@pa...>]

running kdiff3 0.9.92 on windows 2000 sp4, when available ram
is low kdiff3 sometimes behaves so erratically that i need to
kill the process.

interestingly, i think there might be some correlation to
running multiple instances of kdiff3.

sorry i don't have time (in this moment) to do more testing to
isolate and describe in more detail exactly what's happening.

maybe this brief report will be helpful in some way to someone
else who's seen the same behavior.

[Kdiff3-user] mod dates equal but files are not

[David M. B. <da...@pa...>]

when running kdiff3, sometimes the targets have many files with
identical dates and binary differences.  afaict, kdiff3
requires manual intervention on a per file basis.

this can result in more work than i have time for.

it would be great if kdiff3 had an option that allowed for a
modifable default action in this circumstance.


example
-------

Default action when modification dates of files are equal but
the files are not:

 - Prompt (the current default action)
 - Do nothing
 - Copy A to B
 - Copy B to A
 - Delete A
 - Delete B
 - Delete A & B
 - Merge to A
 - Merge to B
 - Merge to A & B



 -- david

Re: [Kdiff3-user] Change to kdiff3plugin.desktop installation

[Neal B. <ndb...@gm...>]

Thanks.  Actually, I wanted you to modify the make install to add the 
NoDisplay, so the .spec file didn't need to.  Then, the standard 'make 
install' will have it already.  I don't need you to modify the .spec file, I 
already did that.

Re: [Kdiff3-user] Change to kdiff3plugin.desktop installation

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi Neal,

I modified the kdiff3.spec file, but I don't understand .spec-files good 
enough to be sure. I added your lines below the "%files"-section.

I've attached the complete file. Could you please verify it?

If necessary please send the corrected file back.

Best regards,
Joachim




Am Mittwoch 07 November 2007 19:06:55 schrieb Neal Becker:
> Hello.  I maintain the kdiff3 package for fedora.  It has been suggested
> that the kdiff3plugin.desktop install be changed as follows:
>
> echo "NoDisplay=true" >> \
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
>  desktop-file-install  --vendor="" \
>      --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/kde
>      --delete-original \
>      $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
>
> The change I'm suggesting for kdiff3 is the first 2 lines (that is, add the
> NoDisplay=true'.  The desktop-file-install lines are fedora-specific parts
> of the kdiff3.spec file.
>
> Here is the whole message:
> --------------- Forwarded message (begin)
>
> Subject: Re: desktop file handling question
> From: Rex Dieter <rd...@ma...>
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:48:28 -0500
> Newsgroup: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
>
> [...]
>
> I'd recommend instead:
>  desktop-file-install  --vendor="" \
>      --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden
>      $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
>
> Or (prefered)
> echo "NoDisplay=true" >> \
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
>  desktop-file-install  --vendor="" \
>      --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/kde
>      --delete-original \
>      $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
>
> and talk to upstream about making the latter change, so as not to use the
> legacy applnk dirs at all.
>
> -- Rex

[Kdiff3-user] Change to kdiff3plugin.desktop installation

[Neal B. <ndb...@gm...>]

Hello.  I maintain the kdiff3 package for fedora.  It has been suggested that 
the kdiff3plugin.desktop install be changed as follows:

echo "NoDisplay=true" >> \
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
 desktop-file-install  --vendor="" \
     --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/kde
     --delete-original \
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop

The change I'm suggesting for kdiff3 is the first 2 lines (that is, add the 
NoDisplay=true'.  The desktop-file-install lines are fedora-specific parts of 
the kdiff3.spec file.

Here is the whole message:
--------------- Forwarded message (begin)

Subject: Re: desktop file handling question
From: Rex Dieter <rd...@ma...>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:48:28 -0500
Newsgroup: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel

[...]

I'd recommend instead:
 desktop-file-install  --vendor="" \
     --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop

Or (prefered)
echo "NoDisplay=true" >> \
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop
 desktop-file-install  --vendor="" \
     --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/kde
     --delete-original \
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applnk/.hidden/kdiff3plugin.desktop

and talk to upstream about making the latter change, so as not to use the
legacy applnk dirs at all.

-- Rex

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--------------- Forwarded message (end)

Re: [Kdiff3-user] Build errors on SLES9

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi,

Your SLES9 seems to use KDE3.2 or older.

Original line 1650:
QStringList readListEntry (const QString& s, const QStringList& def, char 
separator )    { return m_pConfig->readListEntry(s.latin1(),def,separator); }

error: no matching function for call to 
`KConfig:: readListEntry(const char*, const QStringList&, char&)

Candidates are:
int KConfigBase::readListEntry(const QString&, QStrList&, char) const
int KConfigBase::readListEntry(const char*, QStrList&, char) const
QStringList KConfigBase::readListEntry(const QString&, char) const
QStringList KConfigBase::readListEntry(const char*, char) const

My KDE-docs allow the following since KDE3.3:
QStringList readListEntry (const char *pKey, const QStringList &aDefault, char 
sep= ',') const

Since the paramter aDefault requires a QStringList (instead of QStrList) this 
doesn't work. But since it is a default parameter, you can replace the 
function in line 1650 with:

QStringList readListEntry (const QString& s, const QStringList& def, 
   char separator )
{ // This is essentially the KDE-implementation.
    if ( !m_pConfig->hasKey( s.latin1() ) )
         return def;
    else
         return m_pConfig-> readListEntry( s.latin1(), separator );
}

Or if the above doesn't work:
{ 
   QStringList sl = m_pConfig->readListEntry(s.latin1(),separator);
   if (sl.isEmpty()) return def;
   return sl;
}

Cheers,
Joachim

Am Freitag 19 Oktober 2007 16:09:59 schrieb Bob Bell:
> I am trying to build kdiff3 on a SLES9 box, and I'm running into
> a compilation error.  Can any advise me on what I might be missing?
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/auto/bbell/kdiff3-0.9.92/src'
> if /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I. -I. -I.. -I/opt/kde3/include -I/usr/lib/qt3/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include   -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTRANT  -Wno-long-long
> -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion
> -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -Wformat-security
> -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions
> -fno-check-new -fno-common  -MT optiondialog.lo -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/optiondialog.Tpo" -c -o optiondialog.lo optiondialog.cpp; \ then mv
> -f ".deps/optiondialog.Tpo" ".deps/optiondialog.Plo"; else rm -f
> ".deps/optiondialog.Tpo"; exit 1; fi optiondialog.cpp: In member function
> `virtual QStringList
>    ConfigValueMap::readListEntry(const QString&, const QStringList&,
> char)': optiondialog.cpp:1650: error: no matching function for call to
> `KConfig:: readListEntry(const char*, const QStringList&, char&)'
> /opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:232: error: candidates are: int
>    KConfigBase::readListEntry(const QString&, QStrList&, char) const
> /opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:244: error:                 int
>    KConfigBase::readListEntry(const char*, QStrList&, char) const
> /opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:253: error:                 QStringList
>    KConfigBase::readListEntry(const QString&, char) const
> /opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:262: error:                 QStringList
>    KConfigBase::readListEntry(const char*, char) const
> make[2]: *** [optiondialog.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/auto/bbell/kdiff3-0.9.92/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/auto/bbell/kdiff3-0.9.92'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

[Kdiff3-user] Build errors on SLES9

[Bob B. <b_...@th...>]

I am trying to build kdiff3 on a SLES9 box, and I'm running into 
a compilation error.  Can any advise me on what I might be missing?

make[2]: Entering directory `/auto/bbell/kdiff3-0.9.92/src'
if /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/opt/kde3/include -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include   -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTRANT  -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common  -MT optiondialog.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/optiondialog.Tpo" -c -o optiondialog.lo optiondialog.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/optiondialog.Tpo" ".deps/optiondialog.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/optiondialog.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
optiondialog.cpp: In member function `virtual QStringList
   ConfigValueMap::readListEntry(const QString&, const QStringList&, char)':
optiondialog.cpp:1650: error: no matching function for call to `KConfig::
   readListEntry(const char*, const QStringList&, char&)'
/opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:232: error: candidates are: int
   KConfigBase::readListEntry(const QString&, QStrList&, char) const
/opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:244: error:                 int
   KConfigBase::readListEntry(const char*, QStrList&, char) const
/opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:253: error:                 QStringList
   KConfigBase::readListEntry(const QString&, char) const
/opt/kde3/include/kconfigbase.h:262: error:                 QStringList
   KConfigBase::readListEntry(const char*, char) const
make[2]: *** [optiondialog.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/auto/bbell/kdiff3-0.9.92/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/auto/bbell/kdiff3-0.9.92'
make: *** [all] Error 2

-- 
Bob Bell

[Kdiff3-user] Kdiff3 doesn't ignore -u at its first use

[<fre...@eo...>]

Hello Joachim,

I found my real problem about options which are not ignored (KDiff3: 
0.9.92 - KDE: 3.5.7-1.fc6 Fedora - Qt: 3.3.8).

In fact, options which are ignored seems to be stored in ~/.kdiff3rc. 
But, for a virgin account, this file doesn't exist. So, the first time 
kdiff3 is used, it doesn't ignore -u. Kdiff3 must be launched once to 
create this file.

But, I must admit it's a very minor problem...

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Re: [Kdiff3-user] OT: best text-based diff tool

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi David,

The strictly console based ones I know are
GNU diff with the sdiff variant, wdiff and the ones you already seem to know:
vimdiff, emacs via ediff.

Graphical ala mc are vimdiff and "emacs -nw".
(Emacs even supports merge with base file.)

Joachim

Am Dienstag, 2. Oktober 2007 23:53 schrieb David M. Besonen:
> On Tue, October 2, 2007 2:43 pm, Joachim Eibl wrote:
> > Hmm. I'm quite biased towards KDiff3 ;-)
>
> i am too.  just sometimes the work i do is limited to a console.
>
> >> what is the "best" (your opinion) text-based diff tool?
> >
> > "Best" for which purpose?
> >
> >> the diff tool can be console-based.  it could also be vim or
> >> emacs based, etc.
> >
> > There are so many diff-tools that I cannot know them all.
>
> thanks for all of the suggestions.
>
> are any of your suggestions "graphical" a la mc and htop?
>
>
>  -- david
>
>
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Re: [Kdiff3-user] OT: best text-based diff tool

[WYSOCKI Jean-E. <jea...@eu...>]

=20
hi,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools is a =
rather complete survey on the subject

i agree with Joachim :=20
If you want to compare only two files, then you have much choice.
If you want to merge a lot, then you want 3-way merges, but  you won't =
even=20
find many commercial programs that can do that.

and would further say that if you need 3-way merge on both files AND =
folders, running under lin and win and offering a decent user doc, then =
the choice is even more restricted : only two of them in my short list : =
kdiff3 and Elli=E9 Computing =
(http://www.elliecomputing.com/products/merge_overview.asp)

yours
jean-eric

-----Original Message-----
From: kdi...@li... =
[mailto:kdi...@li...] On Behalf Of Joachim =
Eibl
Sent: 02 October 2007 23:44
To: kdi...@li...; David M. Besonen
Subject: Re: [Kdiff3-user] OT: best text-based diff tool

Hi David,

> i figured you'd be a good person to ask this question of:

Hmm. I'm quite biased towards KDiff3 ;-)

> what is the "best" (your opinion) text-based diff tool?

"Best" for which purpose?

> the diff tool can be console-based.  it could also be vim or
> emacs based, etc.

There are so many diff-tools that I cannot know them all.=20

The focus of KDiff3 is diff and merge, especially 3-way merge;
viewing differences in code (especially C++);
platform independence and more and more towards internationalisation, =
which is=20
a very huge topic; directory comparison.

Several tools are optimised for diff only or 2-way-merge (without a =
base).=20
They are often easier to understand. Some programs allow direct editing =
in=20
the diff-windows.

The console based GNU-diff is very useful for creating patches and =
processing=20
huge files. But it is probably not so suitable for unicode files.

Other tools I've tried sometime are: meld, kompare, tkdiff, mgdiff, =
xxdiff,=20
winmerge, dirdiff

If you want to compare only two files, then you have much choice.
If you want to merge a lot, then you want 3-way merges, but  you won't =
even=20
find many commercial programs that can do that.

Since you probably want more opinions, perhaps other people on this =
mailing=20
list can offer their preferences.=20

Or just google for two programs at once like "winmerge kdiff3" and see =
many=20
interesting discussions.

Lot's of fun!
Joachim

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Re: [Kdiff3-user] OT: best text-based diff tool

[David M. B. <da...@pa...>]

On Tue, October 2, 2007 2:43 pm, Joachim Eibl wrote:

> Hmm. I'm quite biased towards KDiff3 ;-)

i am too.  just sometimes the work i do is limited to a console.


>> what is the "best" (your opinion) text-based diff tool?
>
> "Best" for which purpose?
>
>> the diff tool can be console-based.  it could also be vim or
>> emacs based, etc.
>
> There are so many diff-tools that I cannot know them all.

thanks for all of the suggestions.

are any of your suggestions "graphical" a la mc and htop?


 -- david

Re: [Kdiff3-user] OT: best text-based diff tool

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi David,

> i figured you'd be a good person to ask this question of:

Hmm. I'm quite biased towards KDiff3 ;-)

> what is the "best" (your opinion) text-based diff tool?

"Best" for which purpose?

> the diff tool can be console-based.  it could also be vim or
> emacs based, etc.

There are so many diff-tools that I cannot know them all. 

The focus of KDiff3 is diff and merge, especially 3-way merge;
viewing differences in code (especially C++);
platform independence and more and more towards internationalisation, which is 
a very huge topic; directory comparison.

Several tools are optimised for diff only or 2-way-merge (without a base). 
They are often easier to understand. Some programs allow direct editing in 
the diff-windows.

The console based GNU-diff is very useful for creating patches and processing 
huge files. But it is probably not so suitable for unicode files.

Other tools I've tried sometime are: meld, kompare, tkdiff, mgdiff, xxdiff, 
winmerge, dirdiff

If you want to compare only two files, then you have much choice.
If you want to merge a lot, then you want 3-way merges, but  you won't even 
find many commercial programs that can do that.

Since you probably want more opinions, perhaps other people on this mailing 
list can offer their preferences. 

Or just google for two programs at once like "winmerge kdiff3" and see many 
interesting discussions.

Lot's of fun!
Joachim

[Kdiff3-user] OT: best text-based diff tool

[David M. B. <da...@pa...>]

hi Joachim,

i figured you'd be a good person to ask this question of:

what is the "best" (your opinion) text-based diff tool?

the diff tool can be console-based.  it could also be vim or
emacs based, etc.


peace,
david