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author | ryoon <ryoon@pkgsrc.org> | 2012-02-03 15:04:25 +0000 |
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committer | ryoon <ryoon@pkgsrc.org> | 2012-02-03 15:04:25 +0000 |
commit | da8018d38b6d2046a0dd479ec25642688252effe (patch) | |
tree | 14a58341866b7555ba5191c1836aed300dc42f79 /textproc/wdiff/DESCR | |
parent | c93425fc12fd8891ce503b5f13c93502074bf913 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-da8018d38b6d2046a0dd479ec25642688252effe.tar.gz |
Update to 1.1.0
* Update HOMEPAGE.
Changelog:
* Version 1.1.0 - November 2011, by Martin von Gager
* Updated Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian,
Swedish and Ukrainian translations.
* Fix several issue with the use of screen in the test suite.
* Allow WDIFF_PAGER to override PAGER environment variable.
* Do not autodetect less, so we don't auto-enable less-mode.
This should improve things for UTF8 text. (Savannah bug #34224)
Less-mode is considered deprecated, as it isn't fit for multi-byte
encodings. Nevertheless it can still be enabled on the command line.
* Version 1.0.2 - September 2011, by Martin von Gagern
* Unofficial beta release
* Introduces use of ngettext to allow correct handling of plural forms
Diffstat (limited to 'textproc/wdiff/DESCR')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/textproc/wdiff/DESCR b/textproc/wdiff/DESCR index 92ba8c2be9f..f89a3237b54 100644 --- a/textproc/wdiff/DESCR +++ b/textproc/wdiff/DESCR @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ -`wdiff' is a front-end to GNU `diff'. It compares two files, finding -which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to create -the second. It has many output formats and interacts well with -terminals and pagers (notably with `less'). `wdiff' is particularly -useful when two texts differ only by a few words and paragraphs have -been refilled. - -GNU `wdiff' has been written by Franc,ois Pinard. It is an evolving -product, and specifications might change in future releases. +The GNU wdiff program is a front end to diff for comparing files +on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace. +This is useful for comparing two texts in which a few words have +been changed and for which paragraphs have been refilled. It works +by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and then executes +diff on these files. It collects the diff output and uses it to +produce a nicer display of word differences between the original +files. |