If your wordlist is very long, might it be more efficient to generate all possible 1-letter-differences from ‘word’, then check which ones are in the list? I don’t know any Python but there should be a suitable data structure for the wordlist allowing for log-time lookups. I suggest this because if your words are reasonable … Read more
git diff –color-words –no-index old.txt new.txt
The diff-highlight Perl contrib script produces output so similar to that of the Trac screenshots that it is likely that Trac is using it: Install with: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/fd99e2bda0ca6a361ef03c04d6d7fdc7a9c40b78/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight && chmod +x diff-highlight Move the file diff-highlight to the ~/bin/ directory (or wherever your $PATH is), and then add the following to your ~/.gitconfig: [pager] diff … Read more
Just wrote a class to compute smallest (not to be taken literally) number of edits to transform one string into another string: http://www.raymondhill.net/finediff/ It has a static function to render a HTML version of the diff. It’s a first version, and likely to be improved, but it works just fine as of now, so I … Read more