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

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

> 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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