Questions tagged [diff]
Refers to the views that show revision differences and suggested edit changes in various ways by breaking them down into additions and deletions.
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More precise highlighting for diffs
When a single letter s or d is added to a word, the entire new word is highlighted as if the entire word would be completely new. It would help a lot by differentiating between letters that have been ...
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Bug in markdown rendering when only diffs are whitespace
This suggested edit diff looks very wrong when showing the markdown. The rendered output diff is fine, though. It almost seems as though it has prioritsed matching one part of the text including the ...
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Syntax highlighting hints break revision diffs in editor's activity tab
After adding language hints to various answers to this question, I discover that the affected code blocks are shown with all their whitespace collapsed in the rendered diffs in my activity tab... and ...
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Improved way of reviewing "improved formatting"
When I review posts, I often see "improved formatting" but when looking down on the post in the narrow side by side view, with rendered output, all I can focus on is a blur of overstrikes, red and ...
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Tag shows as deleted and re-inserted, even though I didn't edit it
I added the "osx" tag to a question. Nothing else.
It shows that the "colors" tag was removed, and then re-added. What gives? Wouldn't it make sense to show it like this?
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Diff removes a space when it shouldn't
This is a pathetic bug, I know, but each and every... The diff engine is removing a space here.
Screenshot of the infelicity for your delectation:
In the source there is no space:
<p>... the ...
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Remove strikeout in diff
I think strikeout of deleted fragments should be removed in colored diff output (at least when old and new version are displayed separately).
With strikeout:
Without strikeout:
I think it's easier ...
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Review diff does not sufficiently show minor formatting differences
When reviewing, some diffs are practically invisible. In particular changing between blockquote (>) and spoiler (>!). Yes, one could inspect things in detail looking at the markdowndiff. But who ...
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The text change shown in the revision page is wrong
I edited an answer to fix the punctuation, and I have noticed the revision page shows a change that is not the real one.
Watching it, it seems I changed the text from "requires the rules modulethough"...
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Broken LaTeX rendering of markdown differences
The LaTeX renderer interacts badly with markdown differences. Since markdown differences are raw source-code, the LaTeX renderer should ignore it.
For example https://crypto.stackexchange.com/review/...
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Non color diff for review
When reviewing Suggested Edits the output is marked using red and green background colors on the text. Sometimes this makes it hard to see the actual changes.
It would be nice if there was a button ...
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Wrong diff after suggested edit that only changed tags
This suggested edit shows the wrong diff. The revision history shows what happened: first william56 suggested a retag, which was approved (revision 2), then Gilles edited the body, title and tags (...
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Revision diff columns overflowing
I was editing a post, and I formatted the code better (markdown hates code with tab characters in it). When I was viewing the revisions (in source side-by-side diff mode), some of the lines were ...
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Revision mark-down source diff bug
Is this a bug of Stack Overflow, or this is a browser bug? The text is not wrapped properly.
I'm using Firefox 14.0.1 on Windows 7. The page in the screenshot is the revision page of this ...
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Inconsistent space formatting in revisions history
On this page of edit revisions, when you view them in markdown source code, there is some inconsistency: leading spaces apparently always get converted to but other spaces in common lines ...
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