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Jan 9, 2023 at 06:06
I've released difftastic 0.41 with a ton of quality of life improvements! * Better highlighting of words in comments and fallback textual mode * Better support of tabs (handy for Makefiles) * Support for nested syntax in HTML files (courtesy of Sesse)
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Release 0.41.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.41.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Parsing Difftastic now supports embedded languages in HTML and...

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Jan 2, 2023 at 07:20
Difftastic now handles tab characters precisely! This sounds like a small thing, but it's crucial when parsing Makefile syntax. Makefiles look way better now. (Technically tabs are also syntactically significant inside string literals, and that case is fixed too.)
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Apr 18, 2016 at 22:11
Ingenious, but rather evil use of make and awk to enable Makefiles to list their targets:
gnu make - How do you get the list of targets in a makefile? - Stack Overflow
gnu make - How do you get the list of targets in a makefile? - Stack Overflow