Greetings, John Cowan! >> Right now, I hit Alt+Shift+D, which invokes a short macro calling menu entry >> view:<? diff -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" -I "\$Rev.*\$" -I "\$Date.*\$" >> -I "\$Author.*\$" -I "\$URL.*\$" -I "^Orbiting .*$" !?$UnixDiff$Options >> ((-c, -b etc.)):?! --strip-trailing-cr -- "!#!\!.!" "!^!\!.!" >> and get two files (or directories) on opposite panels diffed into an internal >> viewer.
> Very efficient, I'm sure. But to each their own. Of course, it is efficient. More efficient, than starting a shell each time I need to diff a file. Or 2-3 shells, if you call a wrapper. Which is least efficient, considering retarded CMD quoting rules. >> Because Cygwin diff consume normal Windows paths without an issue. > No doubt. But it also handles /cygdrive/c paths, the moral equivalent > of /mnt/c paths, and that's what I use. Moral is a relative category. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, April 15, 2016 12:50:52 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
