Re: [PATCH] gitk: add the equivalent of diff --color-words

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

Thomas Rast wrote:

quoted

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.

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?

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Matthieu Moy
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