Alternative diff rendering options

Open xfbs opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Some different options for rendering the diffs:

Side-by-side mode (easier to read files that way, but takes more screen width)
Collapse non-changed regions (easier to skim changes that way)
Show word/byte diff, as in this (this helps to blend out meaningless changes, such as different newline characters).

Mar 08 '23 20:03 xfbs

Implementation-wise, I think the best UX for this would be to have two buttons in the top-right corner of the file view:

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With some appropriate icons, such that you can switch between the inline and side-by-side mode. Maybe there could also be a button to filter out Windows weirdness (using \r\n as newline character).

Oct 13 '24 14:10 xfbs