What is “Replace”? I think diff is quite good by itself. Even Gitlab doesn’t seem to give a split view in merge requests.
Also see “Balance the benefit of a feature against its overall cost” in Pike’s eloquent Window Systems Should Be Transparent. You can go the “right place” by selecting the whole line in the diff and applying it to Look via B2-B1 chord in the window containing the original file. It’s going to misfire sometimes, but not often. > > On Mar 3, 2025, at 11:04 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out if there's an easy way to use Newcol within > an acme window to show things side-by-side. It would be handy when > comparing diffs. I think it will require code change. > > Intuition-wise, it seems like some sort of Newcol+"Replace" (or > "Split"+"Replace"?) could be used to do this. Once the windows are > arranged, it would be natural to right-click on 'diff -n' output and > go to the right place for each file. > > Hopefully I'm making sense. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3a35d096ff6b0b1a-M9141b60ba8566790dcccebec Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
