Visual diff tool?

[Chris Hewitt]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:14, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> 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.

Fedora comes with Kompare, a nice visual difference tool. Its on the
menu in Gnome too, not just KDE.

HTH
Chris