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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/07/2013 04:18 PM, John Yates
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">What you are describing is a poor-man's form of
        patience diff. &nbsp;Google it if unfamiliar.<br>
        <br>
        Attached is a just slightly tweaked version I stole from bzr. &nbsp;I
        have my emacs ediff-compare-program set to ~/bin/pdiff.
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        <div>Being a python script it potentially may be a bit slow
          (though I have never had a problem). &nbsp;An alternative I saw on
          stackoverlow would be to use git:<br>
          <br>
          $ git diff --no-index --patience file1 file2<br>
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          /john<br>
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    <br>
    Good that the solution is simple. I believe that deficiencies in the
    diff algorithm should be solved by a better diff algorithm, not by a
    graphical interface (which ediff is). <br>
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    --<br>
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    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --- michael<br>
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