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authorryoon <ryoon@pkgsrc.org>2012-02-03 15:04:25 +0000
committerryoon <ryoon@pkgsrc.org>2012-02-03 15:04:25 +0000
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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
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-`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.