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dawnofman

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Registered: 2019-07-26

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diff color palette: missing ID for diff lines ?

The man page for diff mentions --color alongside --palette and states to go looking for info diff for more details on the palette sequence string.

The default --palette is ´rs=0:hd=1:ad=32:de=31:ln=36' which should be the same as ´rs=0;0:hd=0;1:ad=0;32:de=0;31:ln=0;36' ... meaning:

- ad=0;32 for dark green added lines
- de=0;31 for dark red deleted lines
- ln=0;36 for default bold foreground line numbers (for stand-alone diff mode only -not for --side-by-side)

But there is no mention to diff lines and I hardly doubt that someone coded for added/removed lines and not for diff lines. Anyone knows better ?

PS1: I've been using diff piped to colordiff for many years now and, today, but sheer accident, I found that diff supports --color and --palette which probably have not worked as expected back then when I installed colordiff, who knows, I don't remember. The fact is that I want to get rid of colordiff now if I can also change the color for diff lines since I use a lot the --side-by-side switch with yellow for mismatching lines.

PS2: colordiffrc has all the IDs for added/removed/diffs/etc.

dawnofman

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Re: diff color palette: missing ID for diff lines ?

But there is no mention to diff lines and I hardly doubt that someone coded for added/removed lines and not for diff lines. Anyone knows better ?

rs ?

loqs

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Re: diff color palette: missing ID for diff lines ?

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffu … =v3.8#n548

dawnofman

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Re: diff color palette: missing ID for diff lines ?

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffu … =v3.8#n548

Thanks for the link to the source code loqs

Nope, I was wrong, rs=0 is to reset to the default color upon exit.

So no, there is no placeholder for non-matching lines