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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:36:20+00:00

I do something like svn diff > /mystuff/current.diff. I want to view this .diff

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I do something like “svn diff > /mystuff/current.diff”. I want to view this .diff file with syntax highlighting.

jEdit does it, but it’s a huge beast and it takes a while to start up. I want something lightweight/native.

Smultron/Fraise, TextWrangler, TextEdit, Dashcode don’t seem to highlight .diff files.

FileMerge seems to want to generate diff files, not show you existing ones.

TextMate does the trick, but it’s not free. I’d feel happier dropping $50 US if I was going to take advantage of it for anything more than a diff viewer.

Are there any alternatives to jEdit or TextMate that I should consider?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could try an OSX GUI for vim, like the full-featured MacVim or the lightweight vim-cocoa…

    (For a rough feature comparison, you can see this mailing list comment comparing them…)

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