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Jul 5, 2021 at 07:24
I've been playing with 'sliders' in difftastic, the classic diff problem where you highlight an adjacent value that is correct but weird. I've taught difftastic to penalise sequences across newlines. This largely works, but it hurts perf (another degree of freedom to solve).
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