Take a look at the diff between r1.71 and r1.70 of the BeijingRelease page. Notice that the first two changes (first four table rows) show only part of the row, which includes only, for example:

Changed: < <

It would be much easier to find the specific row changed if the entire row were displayed in the diff. (I realize TWiki depends on the standard features of RCS, and I suspect they don't support something like this -- it's just a "nice to have" kind of thing.)

(Maybe there is some kind of workaround -- maybe TWiki could insert a "dummy change" of some sort in the first cell of a row if any cell in the row has been changed?)

-- RandyKramer - 18 Jul 2002

ok - I'm going to call this a bug, but i'm not going to rush doing it yet

if you look at the debug diff output (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/rdiff/Codev/BeijingRelease?rev1=1.71&rev2=1.70&context=10&render=debug), this is due to using \ to make a row span multiple lines

type: u
| | 50% | 10% | 0% | | VerbatimExpandsVariables \ | Main.JohnTalintyre | 100% | 100% | 100% | | NestedVerbatimTags \ | Main.JohnTalintyre | 100% | 100% | 100% | | ProposalForNewlineReplacement \ | Main.PeterThoeny | 100% | 100% | 100% | | [[Telnet URL Support]] \ | Main.PeterThoeny | 100% | 100% | 100% | | RenameTestWebToSandboxWeb \
| | 50% | 10% | 0% | | VerbatimExpandsVariables \ | Main.JohnTalintyre | 100% | 100% | 100% | | NestedVerbatimTags \ | Main.JohnTalintyre | 100% | 100% | 100% | | ProposalForNewlineReplacement \ | Main.PeterThoeny | 100% | 100% | 100% | | [[Telnet URL Support]] \ | Main.PeterThoeny | 100% | 100% | 100% | | RenameTestWebToSandboxWeb \
type: c
| Main.PeterThoeny | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Main.PeterThoeny | 100% | 100% | 95% |

so the diff interpreter needs to re-combine \'ed lines before it hist the renderer (i think)

-- SvenDowideit - 09 May 2004

Yes, I'm going to slack off on this and leave it for DakarRelease -- SvenDowideit - 27 Jun 2004