merge in difftools? (was Re: [patch] adding support for meld to the vimdiff plugin)

[Martin Pool]

On 29 Dec 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Elliot Murphy wrote:
> > I initially considered adding a generic 'guidiff' command which had an
> > Option to allow the user to configure what command should be used to
> > invoke the gui diff viewer, but I decided that it would be better to
> > have meld available for use without requiring any configuration file
> > editing.
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> Have you seen difftools?
> http://mysite.verizon.net/sward.dev/projects/bzr_difftools/

Maybe it would be good to move difftools into a builtin diff --using
option?  It would fit with a 'batteries included' approach, and it's
generally useful and at this point not really experimental.

The code looks pretty clean though it does not seem to have automatic
tests.

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Martin