Does not work with diffs in minted environments

[brasswood]

I am trying to get a diff between two versions of my thesis. However, latexdiff isn't working because my thesis uses minted. Here is a minimal example of the problem.

a.tex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}
\begin{minted}{text}
something_here
\end{minted}
\end{document}

b.tex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}
\end{document}

Commands:

latexdiff --config "VERBATIMLINEENV=minted" a.tex b.tex > diff.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape diff.tex

Output:

! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
                $
l.50 }
      %DIFDELCMD < \end{minted}
?

This appears to be caused by latexdiff improperly moving the arguments to minted inside of the minted environment:

 \DIFdelbegin %DIFDELCMD < \begin{minted}%%%
%DIFAUXCMD NEXT
\DIFmodbegin
\begin{minted}[alsolanguage=DIFcode]
%DIF < {text}
%DIF < something_here
\end{minted}
\DIFmodend %DIFAUXCMD
%DIFDELCMD < \end{minted}
%DIFDELCMD <  %%%
\DIFdelend

When I move {text} up to the previous line and remove %DIF < from it, it compiles.

I have tried to hack the script to work for me by duplicating regex replaces containing $VERBATIMLINEENV and replacing that with minted. See my branch at https://github.com/brasswood/latexdiff/tree/minted. However, it's not working, and when I run my patched script (without setting VERBATIMLINEENV), I get the following output:

 \DIFdelbegin %DIFDELCMD < \begin{minted}%%%
%DIF < DIFVRB {text}
%DIF < DIFVRB something_here
%DIFDELCMD < \end{minted}
%DIFDELCMD <  %%%
\DIFdelend

which doesn't include a minted environment at all in the output. By putting debug statements in the output, I am able to see that the reversemintedlinecomment subroutine I defined (copied from reverselinecomment) is not called.

I am willing to keep trying to get this to work. I would also appreciate it if someone shared helpful knowledge about the code base.

[brasswood]

Likely will be solved by #193