Morgan Jones on 11 Feb 2011 08:18:28 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] (Free) Graphical Diff Tools


On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Kevin McAllister wrote:

> My favorite tool for doing this kind of work is ediff, I wouldn't recommend it to those who aren't comfortable using emacs but if you're already an emacs user and you don't use ediff check it out.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/ediff.html\



Agreed.  I use emacs for all of my complex editing and ediff is excellent for both showing differences and merging them.  It even does 3 way diff'ing.  Like the rest of emacs once you get comfortable with the commands it's extremely powerful and flexible.

-morgan
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