On 2017-04-01, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz <cbannis...@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.
