This is a sign of a great text editor community: when you see an idea elsewhere, you explore it and see if you can achieve the same advantages! https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/88b51s/putting_the_i_back_in_ide_jane_sts_emacsbased/dwkwcg9/
(Tarsius has lots of valuable opinions on VCS integration with editors, of course.)
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I'm not sure if I should use the term "text diff" or "textual diff" to refer to a conventional, line-oriented diff of text in difftastic.
Any opinions? Which seems clearer to you?
One interesting design choice in Emacs that I haven't seen in other editors: reserved shortcuts.
An Emacs extension shouldn't use F5 through F12, or Ctrl-c LETTER. This lets users configure their own shortcuts. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Key-Bindings.html
Does it exist elsewhere? I miss it in VS Code, where e.g. all the Fn keys are already assigned.
I'm trying to improve the readability of the --help output from difftastic.
I'm experimenting with making example invocations bold, so they are easier to distinguish from the text.
I'm also trying OSC 8 to make my URLs clickable.
Opinions welcome :)