[Tkdiff-discuss] RE: [Fwd: TkDiffB enhancement]

[John K. <jo...@kl...>]

[ Copying Daniel, the author of the patch, and also the new =
tkdiff-discuss
list at sourceforge. ]

Hi Dorothy,

Good to hear from you!

> Glad to hear you're taking on tkdiff again.  Here's a patch someone
> sent me for the version I included with tkcvs 7.1.  The first part
> fixes a boneheaded mistake I made,  and the rest of the patch is
> something that sounds like a good idea, although I haven't really
> studied it yet.  I'm in the middle of moving all my stuff onto a
> new computer.

Hmmmmmmm.  Not sure what to do...  Reasons:

1.  Your version is a heavily-modified 3.09.

2.  There's already a 3.10-in-progress in CVS (that is, a
differently-modified 3.09).

Any chance you'd be willing to work with us to get the relevant portions =
of
your version into ours, where they're appropriate? :-)  What exactly did =
you
do to create yours?

Anyway, for ignoring whitespace, the generally-accepted approach is to =
use
"diff" options when you invoke tkdiff.  Anything tkdiff doesn't =
recognize is
passed on to diff, and so one usually accomplishes this particular thing =
by
doing something like:

	tkdiff -t -w firstfile secondfile

The -t and -w are passed to diff, and tell it to ignore whitespace.

We made a conscious decision, way back, to forgo adding new built-in =
options
when there already exist diff options (that can be passed through) to
accomplish the same thing.  Note further that under Preferences > =
General,
you can actually set the "-t -w" persistently, so that access to a =
command
line isn't required.

Good to hear from you...  Hope all is well!

John