[Kdiff3-user] Re: Kdiff3-user digest, Vol 1 #19 - 1 msg

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> As Michael already pointed out, this can be solved
> via a preprocessor:
> sed
>
"s/\$\(Revision\|Author\|Log\|Header\|Date\).*\$/\$\1\$/"

I use sed quite a bit to preprocess files before
diffing - the trouble is that you lose the difference
completely. It would be quite nice to be able to treat
it as a whitespace difference so it at least gets
highlighted for a quick check. For CVS comments its
probably not important, but it might be nice to be
able to specify a regexp to treat arbitrary text as
whitespace. That's a rather more complex feature to
ask for, though ;)

> See my previous answer here:
>
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4078590&forum_id=38851

Cool, thanks!

> For the moment KDiff3 doesn't reject binary files as
> other tools do, but 
> during the diff and display KDiff3 substitutes some
> characters with spaces, 
> which means that it's not fully reliable for binary
> files.

Plus it would be nice if it could render binary files
in hex rather than ascii, or even better in both
formats simultaneously, as hex editors often do. I
might try extending it this way myself if I can find
some time.

Thanks to all who responded!

Bernie



	
	
		
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