2014-05-04



Implemented a web-based diff(1). I  wanted  to  give  people  who
don't have command line access the possibility to diff two (latex
source code) files. My service should meet just the bare necessi-
ties. The requirements were: (1) an upload for two files, (2) the
ability to ignore whitespace, (3) colorized diff(1)  output,  and
(4) colorized wdiff(1) output. I wanted the wdiff output, because
the typical users don't usually break their lines at  80  columns
but  usually  put  whole  paragraphs into a single line. wdiff is
enormously useful in those cases.

Probably, such services do exist already, but I wanted  to  write
such  a  service myself. Thus I invested two or three hours to do
it. I built upon existing code from a previous project.   Techni-
cally it's: PHP on the surface, diff(1) and wdiff(1) in the core,
and sh/sed as clue inbetween. It's an all hacked solution, but it
was fun writing it.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>