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Re: Bug in diff man, suggestion for addition
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Bug in diff man, suggestion for addition |
Date: |
04 Feb 2004 18:07:10 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
address@hidden writes:
> In the description of --line-format, it says "in-then-else". This should
> probably be "if-then-else".
I don't see this in my copy of diff, so I assume it's fixed now.
> I like the side-by-side format, but I would sometimes like to have line
> numbers too. That is, independent line numbers in each side, reflecting
> the position of each line in its respective file -- not the position of
> the line in stdout, which I could get by piping through "cat -n".
>
> I don't see an option to get them.
You're right, there isn't one. It'd be nice to have.
> If not, is it possible to add it?
It'd be possible, yes. (Ideally, you'd be the guy to write the code
and documentation. :-)