Re: RFC - fixing comparison feature #2 - words

On 7/31/26 6:16 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:27:40AM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> If it weren't too difficult, a preference setting for word-only diffs might
>> be welcome. That would speed things up a ton.
> Right, at the same time, while chasing the littering in the result can be written as small surgical touch - the heavy lifting is really to get the heuristics right conceptually, not the code - the shift to word-based diff will be somewhat massive :/

I am coming to appreciate that. But I also appreciate your attempting 
this. I've tried to use the compare function, and it's...not terribly 
useful in its current form.


> Anyway, we are not there yet, as Vincent rightly pointed out in the bug, the same problem re-occurs on the word-level, I spent some time playing with examples to nail down the rules for word-based spillover. Below is the attempt for word-level heuristics.

Diff algorithms are a total mystery to me. But this sounds plausible.

Riki


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