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I did something similar recently using my custom terminal diff tool. Here is a more colourful terminal-based view of the differences between MN908947.3 and sars NC_004718.3: https://twitter.com/RobertElderSoft/status/12226906294923796...…
comment by robertelder · 2020-02-09 · in Diffing Coronaviruses -
I spent a bit of time learning the Myers Diff algorithm, (I made this page: https://blog.robertelder.org/diff-algorithm/ ) Like someone else said, I think the key is that you're not getting the shortest edit script, you're just getting a…
comment by robertelder · 2019-10-29 · in Ask HN: I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing? -
Love: - Being super productive with terminals Hate: - The #1 thing by far in my book is not having better support for unicode. It is not possible to accurately determine the width of a unicode character in advance of printing it in the…
comment by robertelder · 2017-12-27 · in Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?