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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by abdullahkhalids on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:08PM (#39784422)
I see. From the docs [1]

    --word-diff-regex=<regex> 

      ... A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline.
If I understand this correctly, if you use newlines inside a sentence (if you are writing a fixed width document, for example), this won't work.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff

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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by mzs on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:48PM (#39784810)
pipe through "fmt -sw999999999999" first
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