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There are already answers suggesting wdiff and comments to those suggesting adding colordiff, so this hardly adds anything.

Henrik supports the community
– Henrik supports the community

2022-08-02 09:18:17 +00:00
Commented Aug 2, 2022 at 9:18
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I added this as an answer instead of a comment because it was not there as an answer. Only the comments are no answer (good comments don't upvote the corresponding answer) and colordiff was only mentioned in comments so far

rubo77
– rubo77

2022-08-02 10:16:12 +00:00
Commented Aug 2, 2022 at 10:16

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