compare whole word instead of letter

[gonbad]

Is there any configuration so that if two word differ in a single letter or more, red the whole old one and green the whole new one?
for example:
hey dad! how are you?
hey lad! how are you?
diff:
hey dad lad! how are you?

[gonbad]

I mean word-by-word comparison

[amweiss]

It should be possible as https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-diff-match-patch/wikis/LineOrWordDiffs.wiki describes an approach, however, currently there's not a way to do that with the library.

[Tagman]

As the google diff algorithm is character based, so is there output. IMO you have 2 options.
One is to reconfigure the google diff library to get a word based diff output (like @amweiss said). Or you use a different diff library, that outputs the real unfied diff format (not googles variant).
In both case you will need a different angular module, as this supports only the default google-diff-match-patch output.

Sorry for necroing the thread, but I am currently looking for angular modules to view the google-diff-match-patch output and thought I could pitch in.