Maybe joining both ideas? Like coloring the whole word of a more neutral color and the difference with the usual bright color?
I think it would be the best as I agree with both point of views. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Martijn Coppoolse <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17-12-2012 8:33, Baruch Burstein wrote: >> >> Another suggestion: >> Since visual diffs are always for text files (I think), it doesn't make >> much sense to mark partial words as changed. If the whole word is not >> unchanged, then the whole word is changed. I am referring to things like >> line 73817 on the left in the fourth link below. > > > Respectfully disagree. > > The line you refer to works perfectly fine; I see no reason to reduce > granularity to word level, and every reason to keep it the way it works now: > if a word is partially changed, I like to see _what_ part was changed. > > IMO, diff highlighting should highlight changes, not words. I can recognize > words by myself just fine; seeing what exactly changed is what I need the > highlighting for. > > Also, in my case (at least), visual diffs are usually for text files > representing source code. In code, especially for a case-sensitive language, > a change to a single character can be crucial. Reducing highlighting to > only indicate changes per word makes it more difficult to see this. > > > >> >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Richard Hipp <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Reposted from fossil-dev: >> >> OLD: http://www2.sqlite.org/src/ci/52e755943f?sbs=1#chunk1 >> NEW: http://www.sqlite.org/src/ci/52e755943f?sbs=1#chunk1 >> >> OLD: >> >> http://www2.fossil-scm.org/fossil/fdiff?v1=955cc67ace8fb622&v2=e2e1c87b86664b45#chunk24 >> NEW: >> >> http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/fdiff?v1=955cc67ace8fb622&v2=e2e1c87b86664b45#chunk24 >> > >> -- >> ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎɟı > > > ˙pɐǝɥ ʎɯ uo buıʇʇıs uǝɥʍ ǝuıɟ ʇsnظ uʍop ǝpısdn pɐǝɹ uɐɔ ı ¡ʎןןıs ǝq ʇ’uop > > -- > Martijn Coppoolse > > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
