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[ILUG] text flow tools

[ILUG] text flow tools

Ole Tange ole at tange.dk
Thu Jul 28 13:58:49 IST 2005


On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Paul Biggar wrote:

> grep can find two words one after the other by doing 'grep "word1
> word2"'. Does anybody know a way of making this return a case where
> word1 is at the end of one line, and word2 is at the start of the
> next.

Substitute text1 and text2.

perl -ne '$f and /^text1/ and print $l,$_;$f=/text2$/;$l=$_' 

> On a similar note, I'm looking for a diff/merge tool that takes the
> flow of a paragraph into account. I'm trying to merge two slightly
> different copies of the same latex document. I saw texdiff, but its
> not exactly what I'm looking for, which would be more like a the
> standard diff tool. I also looked at wdiff, but it doesn't really
> merge things, and looks like it will be hard to use. Can anyone
> suggest better?

Emacs: M-x ediff


/Ole



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