Can we ignore specific characters like *,\ etc using diffWords ?

[OmkarPh]

I don't want the following to be detected as a diff.
Ignoring the * before & after this word should do the trick ig (I don't want to track special characters in my diff anyway)

Is there any way to achieve this?
I'm using diffWords here btw

[ExplodingCabbage]

Not trivial current way, and I don't think I'd want to add it, but #221 is a similar request and might give you the results you want here (if/when I implement it).

The one thing you can currently do is roll your own tokenization and equality-checking logic to get the behaviour you want.