Request for review: replacing cdiff with colordiff
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri May 20 18:06:15 UTC 2005
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:03:48PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Oh, I see that Ville has actually added a cdiff wrapper that acts exactly
> > like cdiff, thus removing my earlier complaint.
> Yes, that was mentioned in my initial message to this thread :)
Yeah, I just misunderstood before I actually saw it. :)
> The most important thing about the config file is that default settings
> in it doesn't make things _invisible_ with the most "usual" color
> schemes. (Non-)ugliness is secondary, and because the default color
> scheme is black-on-white in Fedora, the default is geared towards such
> setups. See also the samples in the package's doc dir (there's one for
> dark backgrounds), and note that one can configure the colors exactly
> like one pleases in ~/.colordiffrc
I'll play around and see if I can come up with something more clever. It's
too bad there's no way to automatically detect the background and switch on
the fly.
> I think chopping lines with -S would be very much unexpected behaviour.
[...]
> Although colorization doesn't always work for wrapped lines, it
> _usually_ does just fine here (using Konsole, FWIW). Chopping the lines
> would avoid the colorization issue, but it would certainly _always_ hide
> parts of the information when long lines are present and cause the need
> to hit the right arrow which will certainly screw up the colorization.
Hmmm, yeah, the left and right scrolling with -S sure is br0ke. Okay, never
mind then. :)
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