Re: diff-highlight highlight words?
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- Scott Baker <bakers@canbytel.com>
- Date
- Nov 12, 2014, 17:59 UTC
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- <5463A007.4090302@canbytel.com>
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- <20141112075609.GA21485@peff.net>
On 11/11/2014 11:56 PM, Jeff King wrote:
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> [+cc git@vger, since this may be of interest to others] > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:40:59PM -0800, Scott Baker wrote: > > > I'd like to recreate the github style diffs on the command line. It > > appears that your diff-highlight is very close. The current version only > > allows you to "invert the colors" which isn't ideal. > > Yes, I never built any configurability into the script. However, you can > tweak the definitions at the top to get different effects. > Traditionally, ANSI colors on the terminal only came in two flavors: > "normal" and "bright" (which is attached to the "bold" attribute"). > Instead of reversing video, you can switch on brightness like this:
It's 2014, most terminals are at least 256 colors. I'm fine if the defaults are 16 colors (that's safest), but it would be really cool if we could have an option for:
line add color line remove color word add color word remove color
I would then configure appropriate colors from the 256 color palette. I think the Github style diffs which include the lines/words that are changed are very readable and make dealing with diffs easier.
-- Scott Baker - Canby Telcom Senior System Administrator - RHCE