[ILUG] vimdiff(1)ing (subsets of) two directories

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:38:31 +0000
  | From: Pádraig Brady <P at draigBrady.com>
  | 
  | > [any] suggestions on an algorithm and/or tool(s)[?]
  | 
  | I noticed this on vim at vim.org a couple of days ago:
  | http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=102

 thanks Pádraig!  I checked the ILUG website from
 work this morning (something I rarely do), saw
 yer suggestion, and gave it a try.

 man, it is frustratingly close to what I want!
 what it does is do a `vimdiff'-style comparison
 of two files with a third control pane to select
 which file pairing to compare.
 and that's the rub:  it does not scale.
 for 2 or 10 or maybe 20 pairs of files to compare,
 it's probably Ok; but for 200 or 2000 it's not
 (esp. when you are doing this repeatedly).

 it clearly does not — cannot — have the problem
 my current approach does, which has set me off
 thinking about yet a different algorithm (and
 also about maybe generating HTML so that the
 rest of the developer community does not have to
 come to grips with `vim':  I am about the only
 developer who does not use GUI tools).

 the HTML angle is brand-new, so I haven't yet
 done any (re)search on it (apologies!), but does
 someone have a suggestion/pointer on a tool which
 generates HTML (probably colourized with common
 line suppression) side-by-side diff listing?

cheers!
	-blf-
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