Ability to compare the difference between two text files

prasathmani / tinyfilemanager

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Ability to compare the difference between two text files #997

Open matheuskshn opened 1 year ago

matheuskshn commented 1 year ago

Hello, I would like to request a new feature in the Tiny File Manager, the ability to compare the difference between two text files (similar to diff on Linux).

There are some file comparison libraries in PHP that could be used, such as php-diff (https://github.com/JBlond/php-diff) or FineDiff (https://github.com/gorhill/PHP-FineDiff).

ner00 commented 1 year ago

This may be too much to ask from a project which aims to be a file explorer as simple as it can be for its purpose. The libraries suggested fall into the categories of:

Too fresh (php-diff requires PHP 7.3+)
Too old and unmaintained (PHP-FineDiff)

Not sure if any of the suggested libraries would be usable, but I'd personally welcome this feature regardless.