wdiff
Introduction to wdiff
The program wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace. This is useful for comparing two texts in which a few words have been changed and for which paragraphs have been refilled. It works by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and then executes diff on these files. It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer displany of word differences between the original files.
Downloading wdiff
wdiff can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/ [via http] and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/ [via FTP]. It can also be found on one of our FTP mirrors.
The latest bleeding-edge version of the source code, along with a revision history, can be found in the wdiff Savannah repository. Pretest tarballs are periodically released at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/. Please note that we do not suggest using wdiff sources from these locations for production use.
Documentation
wdiff documentation can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/manual/.
Mailing Lists
To subscribe to any GNU mailing list, please send an empty mail with a Subject: header line of just "subscribe" to the relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to the wdiff list, you would send mail to <wdiff-bugs-request@gnu.org> with no body and a Subject: header line of just "subscribe".
The mailing list for wdiff is <wdiff-bugs@gnu.org>, and is used to discuss all aspects of wdiff, including bug reports, patches, and testing. Announcements about wdiff and most other GNU Software are also made on <info-gnu@gnu.org>.
Maintainer
wdiff is currently being maintained by Denver Gingerich.