Re: Anything more powerful than diff's -I...?

[Paul Eggert]

Paul Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> I guess I could do something like remove all the const's from the file
> then compare that, and if it was the same I would skip it and if it was
> different I could run diff on the original files.

I find this strategy useful in other circumstances too.  Typically I
don't bother to run diff on the original files; I just run it on their
transformed versions.  It'd be nice if "diff" supported this sort of
thing better.  (I don't know of other tools that do.)