The colour coding of the "diffs" don't serve much of a purpose. How I'd like them to work (and IIRC, how they used to work), is for the colours to highlight much smaller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original text: Gareth Owen is a short fat Welshman ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revised Gareth Owen is a short thin Welshman ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- only the words "fat" and "thin" would be highlighted (making it much easier to locate altered text in long paragraphs.)
Anyone who's used 'M-x ediff' in emacs will know what I'm talking about.