Re: [bug-diffutils] color output?

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sex, 2013-03-29 at 09:18 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> would it be possible to support color output in diff, if
> stdout is a terminal? Something similar to
> "grep --color=auto" would be nice.
> 
> Sometimes the difference between 2 lines is very hard to see,
> for example if a ':' is replaced by ';', or if a white space
> char has been added at the end of a line. Colors could help
> alot to improve readability.

if you edit diff (at least --unified) with vim will see colored 

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Sérgio M. B.