Very true! This is why tools that generate code from diagrams/specs don't allow you to ignore the fine details. They feel like coding. https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney/status/3361631527
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I've just released difftastic 0.53! In this release:
* SCSS support
* Better directory diffing: .gitignore is respected and output is (optionally) sorted by filename
* Better support for Windows files (you can ignore carriage returns entirely)
I've released difftastic 0.42! In this release:
* Faster textual diffing (over 10x if files have few lines in common!)
* There's now a syntactic diffing option --ignore-comments, for when you only want to see code changes
Today I learnt that Emacs will do a best-effort parse of expressions in comments too, unless you set parse-sexp-ignore-comments.
That's all well and good until org.el has ASCII smileys! https://github.com/bzg/org-mode/blob/4d8d7d6cb42e388572b4f5d227e9b3c9da6ca4a7/lisp/org.el#L4815-L4816 ("unbalanced paren")