bug#61396: diff mode could distinguish changed from deleted lines

[Samuel Wales]

might need to distinguish from refilled paragraph.

On 9/14/23, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> - Like Samuel mentioned, attenuate the indicators' column. Except instead
>> of
>>   inverse video just apply the refine faces? See
>>   diff-refine-indicators.png. Looks good to me color-wise, though the
>> change
>>  in the indication method is somewhat an inconsistency.
>
> I think I like that.  But I'm not sure how to adapt this to my case
> where I "prettify" the indicators into the fringe.
>
> Maybe a related idea would be to use the diff-refine-added/removed face
> on the line-end: the reduced contrast is not a problem there since
> there's no text.  But it's not always visible (for long enough lines).
>
> I suspect we'll have to provide various alternatives and see which
> ones stick.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>


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