Re: [PATCH] gitk: add the equivalent of diff --color-words
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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- Oct 19, 2010, 13:20 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Thomas Rast wrote: > >> Use the newly added 'diff --word-diff=porcelain' to teach gitk a >> color-words mode, with two different modes analogous to the >> --word-diff=plain and --word-diff=color settings. These are selected >> by a dropdown box. >> >> As an extra twist, automatically enable this word-diff support when >> the user mentions a word-diff related option on the command line. > > I like this a lot.
+1, it's really a feature I was looking forward.
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> After this patch, the diff pane looks like this: > > ( ) Diff ( ) Old version ( ) New version Lines of context: [3 +/-] \ > [ ] Ignore space changes [ Line diff v] > > all on one line. In particular, it is easy not to notice the > new dropdown.
Worse than that: if the window is not large enough, the select box "line diff/markup words/color words" is totally hidden. Is there a way to have the display wrap to 2 lines when the window is not large enough?
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/