Visualizing Diffs: The Myers difference algorithm (2020)
Nice animation. Diff is a very helpful tool, as is the patch command working on diff&#x27;s output. It took me some time as a student (a long time ago) to really comprehend what they where doing, as it looked like magic when I first encountered them while learning Unix.<p>As an emacs user, I prefer its builtin ediff feature, which can work like an interactive kind of patch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_mono&#x2F;ediff.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_mono&#x2F;ediff.ht...</a>