On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Haszlakiewicz, Eric <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get the Visual Diff command to use docdiff for .rtf files.
> I've managed to get TortoiseHG to bring up the "Visual Diffs" window,
> where I can choose whether to use kdiff3 or docdiff, by adding this to my
> mercurial.ini:
>
> [diff-patterns]
> **.rtf = docdiff
>
> However, when I double click on the file, the mouse pointer changes for a
> split second, then nothing happens.
>
> Comparing .doc and .docx files works fine.  I'm using TortoiseHG 2.2.2 on
> Windows 7 (no admin access).
> Explicitly using the compare documents feature from within MS Word (Office
> Pro Plus 2010, Word version 14.0.6123.5001, 32-bit)
>
> What can I do to get this working?
>
>
docdiff doesn't know about the RTF file extension:


https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/src/21ec314a78b7/win32/docdiff.py

I don't see an easy way to patch this for an existing install of
TortoiseHg.  If you would like to submit a patch which adds rtf as another
extension handled by MS Word, there's a good chance it will end up in the
next release.

-- 
Steve Borho
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