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Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking?
passionfingers writes "My business users regularly have to tweak large (>32MB text) data files manually. Overlords charged with verifying the aforementioned changes have requested that the little people be provided with a new file editor that will track changes made to a file (as a word processor does). I have scouted around online for such an animal, but to no avail — even commercial offerings like UltraEdit32 don't offer such a feature. Likewise on the OSS side of the fence, where I expected a Notepad++ plugin or the like, it appears that the requirements to a) open a file containing a large volume of text data and b) track changes to the data, are mutually exclusive. Does anyone in the Slashdot community already have such a beast in their menagerie? Perhaps there is there a commercial offering I've missed, or could someone possibly point me to their favorite (stable) OSS project that might measure up?"
true story: a buddy of mine was "rightsized" when development work was moved offshore. While browsing one of his java forums, he encountered a bunch of questions... you know the kind: broken english, no idea what I'm doing, please do my job for me. The work looked remarkably similar to what he had been doing, so he dug a little deeper and discovered that it was the offshore team that had replaced him. Not surprisingly, they eventually cancelled the project. Meanwhile, he and some of his other former coworkers started their own company to work on a similar project, which they sold (for a shitload) back to the company.