Is there any free *.diff file viewer? [closed]

Is there any free software that will run on Windows 7 to show syntax highlighting for *.diff files generated from comparing files? I don't want to compare files, just view the highlighted output from software which has already compared two files.

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As always: VIM:

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Notepad++ can open any text file and has a variety of syntax highlighting including diff files

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Free Options for diff viewing/editing/merging:

• Diffuse
• AJC Diff
• KDiff
• DiffMerge
• Tortoise Merge
• Meld *
• WinDiff
• Diff Tool *

Wikipedia's recommendations: Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools

**Support Syntax Highlighting*

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FreeDiff might meet your needs, but without know what exactly you are trying to do besides read it, its hard to say for sure.

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If you want to do syntax highlighting, then its a case of: What is in the files, in order that it be highlighted? For example, C source files are parsed differently to XML files.

Perhaps (shudder) emacs would suit?

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