Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?
On 2017-04-01, cbannister@slingshot.co.nz <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously
>> for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the files read only would be
>> acceptable but not preferable.
>
> apt-cache show diffutils
>
> (perhaps there is no need for a desktop on a "minimum" install.) :)
>
What kind of files are these, anyway? vimdiff seems fine, but for word
differences (as between two literary texts, let's say) it's worthless
(although there may be a plugin or another way).
--
"It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the
far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs.
Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To
the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
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