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Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

Started byRichard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
First post2017-03-16 12:40 +0100
Last post2017-04-01 18:50 +0200
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  Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-16 12:40 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 13:10 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-16 14:30 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-16 15:00 +0100
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-17 10:50 +0100
          Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-17 12:40 +0100
            Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-17 15:30 +0100
              Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-17 15:50 +0100
            Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-09-06 06:20 +0200
              Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 08:40 +0200
                Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2017-09-06 09:20 +0200
                  Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-06 10:30 +0200
                  Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 15:10 +0200
                    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-09-06 18:30 +0200
                      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 20:30 +0200
                Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-09-06 16:10 +0200
                  Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-06 16:50 +0200
                OT: Re: Suitable text ed Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2017-09-07 07:50 +0200
                  Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Jan-Peter Rühmann <jan-peter@ruehmann.name> - 2017-09-07 09:10 +0200
                    Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-07 19:30 +0200
                      Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-07 20:50 +0200
                        Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-09-07 21:40 +0200
                          Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-08 02:30 +0200
                            Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-08 23:50 +0200
                        Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-07 22:30 +0200
                  Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-07 09:20 +0200
              Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-06 19:40 +0200
                Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 21:10 +0200
                  Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 00:00 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-16 23:30 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 13:10 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-16 14:30 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-16 13:20 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-03-16 14:00 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-16 14:40 +0100
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-16 14:50 +0100
          Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-03-16 15:10 +0100
            Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2017-03-16 15:50 +0100
              Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-03-16 17:50 +0100
            Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-03-16 17:40 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2017-03-16 13:30 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2017-03-16 13:30 +0100
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-16 15:00 +0100
          Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2017-03-16 15:30 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-16 13:30 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-16 15:10 +0100
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-16 19:20 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-03-16 14:00 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-03-17 20:20 +0100
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-03-17 20:50 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-03-16 14:40 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2017-03-16 15:20 +0100
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-16 23:20 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2017-03-16 15:50 +0100
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2017-04-01 18:00 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-04-01 18:30 +0200
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2017-04-01 21:40 +0200
          Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 13:20 +0200
            Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-09-03 03:30 +0200
              Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-07 17:20 +0200
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-04-02 13:30 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-04-01 18:50 +0200

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#179709

FromCurt <curty@free.fr>
Date2017-04-02 13:30 +0200
Message-ID<trLRL-8ck-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#179689
On 2017-04-01, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> On 03/16/2017 09:04 AM, I {the OP} had written:
> >
> > I don't need a diff tool exactly. I need to do a _visual_ comparison
> > to make sure I'm editing the right portion.
> > I might say I was looking for an "analog" not "digital" solution.
>

There's meld. 

-- 
"It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the
far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs.
Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To
the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.

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#179690

FromCurt <curty@free.fr>
Date2017-04-01 18:50 +0200
Message-ID<trunT-5io-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#179686
On 2017-04-01, cbannister@slingshot.co.nz <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed simultaneously
>> for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the files read only would be
>> acceptable but not preferable.
>
> apt-cache show diffutils
>
> (perhaps there is no need for a desktop on a "minimum" install.) :)
>

What kind of files are these, anyway? vimdiff seems fine, but for word
differences (as between two literary texts, let's say) it's worthless
(although there may be a plugin or another way).


-- 
"It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the
far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs.
Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To
the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.

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