ediff feature request: diffing line by line

[Karl Eichwalder]

Let me forward this enhancement proposal:

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> Re: Intelligent diffing (Re: britannica 1911)
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> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:47:22 +0100 (CET)
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> ediff is great, (is one of my favorite tools) but is insufficient if
> you have more differences in the same line, or differences in several
> consecutive lines (and you have to choose differently for each of
> them); it is clearly tuned for different versions of code, not on OCR
> output. Initially I considered modifying ediff, but the code is too
> complex, I hope to have something usable with much less effort.
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This basically means a diff is required that compares line by line and
that allows to say "next word" from version A or "rest of line" from
version B is wanted.

Here is Carlo's prototyp in Lisp:

    http://www.dm.unipi.it/~traverso/Ebooks/Lsp/ocrdiff.lsp

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