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Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.



On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> [snip]
> > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement.
> > 
> > There's an implementation of this in "git" itself already, named
> > diff-highlight.  Alas, either I'm a complete idiot, or its documentation is
> > not quite adequate -- some time ago I wasted over an hour trying to get that
> > implementation to work, without success.
> 
[snip shell snippets]
> 
> You're welcome... and thanks for bringing diff-highlight to my attention so
> that I could whip these up :)  Now only to figure out how to get the colors
> more similar to the ones that Vim uses (I use a ~/bin/vdiff script that
> pipes stuff through `vim -c 'set ft=diff' -` and I really, really like its
> colors)...

Uh, well, please note that this is in no way meant to say that there is
no need for this ITP; on the contrary, if there is an external, configurable
tool that can be used for other stuff, too, please go ahead and package it!

G'luck,
Peter

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