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Comment by fragmede | Hacker News Reader

word diff gets you halfway without that complexity

Do you mean the diff system inbuilt into Microsoft Word or Google docs etc?

There is a --word-diff flag in git diff. It can also be customized using --word-diff-regex to possibly match sentences.

I see. From the docs [1]

    --word-diff-regex=<regex> 

      ... A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline.

If I understand this correctly, if you use newlines inside a sentence (if you are writing a fixed width document, for example), this won't work.

pipe through "fmt -sw999999999999" first