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ColorDiff - Wrapper for 'diff' with colored syntax highlighting

ColorDiff is a wrapper for diff that produces the same output as diff, but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line to improve readability. The output is similar to a diff-generated patch in Vim or Emacs with the appropriate syntax highlighting options enabled.

The colour schemes can be read from a central configuration file or from a local user ~/.colordiffrc file. 'colordiff' makes use of ANSI colours and therefore will only work when ANSI colours can be used.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://colordiff.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://colordiff.sourceforge.net/colordiff-1.0.4.tar.gz
Version 1.0.4 (stable) released on 2004-01-04
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manpage available in HTML format from http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/colordiff.html
Support contacts

Announce List<colordiff-announce@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/colordiff-announce
Help List<davee@sungate.co.uk>
Developer List<davee@sungate.co.uk>
Bug List<davee@sungate.co.uk>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesPerl
Use requirementsPerl; an ANSI-colour enabled terminal
Build prerequisitesmake
Related programsGeneric Coloriser

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-07-16
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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