Visual diff tool?

[Gustavo Seabra]

Serge de Souza wrote:

> Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
>
>> I'd like to compare the packages installed on two different systems, and
>> have them presented in a nice way. So far I've done
>>
>> rpm -qa | sort > packages_box1.txt
>>
>> on both boxes and then used diff to compare them, but I'd like to have
>> the diff presented visually if possible (very much like Cervisia
>> presents diffs between CVS revisions).
>>
>> Is there any tool available in Fedora that can do this? (OK, I could use
>> the same filename for both, commit them as two different revisions in a
>> CVS rep, and then do a diff in Cervisia, but that's a bit cumbersome :))
>>
>> -- 
>> Tarjei
>>
>
> try vimdiff file1 file2
>
> or gvimdiff
>
> Chances are they are already installed on your system
>
in my system at least, if I name the file something.diff and open in vi 
(vim) it automatically comes with some syntax highlighting.

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