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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: wanted: Ada diff tool
Date: 2000/05/03
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Brian Orpin <abuse@borpin.co.uk> writes:

> On Tue, 2 May 2000 13:05:48 -0400, "Terry Westley"
> <twestley@buffalo.veridian.com> wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know of a difference tool which understands the syntax of Ada?
> 
> I have found Emacs to be invaluable in the 'diffing' department.  It will
> ignore whitespace and single stepping through using the spacebar is very
> quick.  It will also diff all files in 2 directories and build a set
> which you can then go over.

Also in Emacs, take a look at M-x compare-windows.

>..  All this is on Unix of course <g>.

I use Emacs on Unix, Windows-NT, and Windows-95.  If you want to use
some of the more unix-ish features on Windows, you can get various tools
like diff and bash from Cygnus.

- Bob