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   Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 02:14:39 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

   So what's a good diff viewer that doesn't choke when told to compare a couple ~20 MiB files

   Looking for something in the style of meld or vimdiff

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 02:14:37 JST SuperDicq

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     @koakuma@uwu.social GNU diffutils?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 02:17:16 JST SuperDicq

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     @koakuma@uwu.social For optimal viewing experience you can just pipe diff into less diff foo.txt bar.txt | less. I would recommend doing that.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:14:27 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @koakuma @SuperDicq -y for side-by-side and --color
     Although I tend to just use git diff --no-index for off-repo files here, specially because diffutils lacks features like word-diff.

     And use tkdiff from time to time to get line-by-line diff but with word-diff-like highlights.

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     Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:14:29 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

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     @SuperDicq `diff` can visualize as side-by-side comparison with color highlighting? :cirnothinking:

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 22:13:21 JST 翠星石

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     • SuperDicq
     @koakuma @SuperDicq `diff --side-by-side --color a b`
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 17:18:01 JST 翠星石

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan @SuperDicq @koakuma Your terminal emulator is incorrectly configured - you'll need to pass --color=always to get colour.
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 17:18:02 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     • SuperDicq
     @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq @koakuma
     
     Don't forget --suppress-common (can be shortened to --suppress-c). Also, --side-by-side has a shorthand version: -y
     
     In summary:
     
     diff -y --suppress-c --color file1 file2
     
     However, some brief testing seems to indicate that --color makes no difference in the side-by-side mode of operation. It doesn't seem to use color. Unfortunate.