Re: [Kdiff3-user] List of words to be considered equal

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

Hi Antonio,

The current method to do this is via a "Line matching preprocessor" in the 
diff-options.

But KDiff3 uses external tools for this: e.g. sed
On Linux sed is a standard tool anyway and on Windows starting with KDiff3 
0.9.96 it is also part of the installation package.

So you can use the command 
sed "s/chapter/paper/g"
which replaces all occurances of "chapter" with "paper" but only during the 
line-matching phase. After that the difference is still highlighted as white 
space which you can also disable via the menu "Diffview" ->"Show white space".

If you have more than one word to replace you can separate the commands with 
semicolon: e.g.
sed "s/first/1/g;s/second/2/g"
(where 's' means substitute and 'g' means global. Without 'g' only the first 
occurance in each line is replaced.)

Best regards,
Joachim


Am Samstag, 28. Juli 2012, 08:26:31 schrieb Antonio DiCesare:
> Is there any way to tell Kdiff3 that two different words in two different
> files have to be treated as equal?
> 
> I use Kdiff3 mainly on LaTeX files and at the moment I'm working on a paper
> that I would also include in a book. So, in the file Paper.tex I have
> sentences like "In this paper…" while in the Book.tex I have "In this
> chapter…". Is it possible to tell Kdiff3 not to highlight a difference when
> it finds "chapter" instead of "paper"?
> 
> Thank you all.
> 
> Antonio.
> 
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