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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Please show changed titles separately in edit diffs
In an edit diff (view "Inline"), when the revision changes the title, removed words are shown struck out in red and added words are shown with a green background. This is fine when there are ...
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Suggested edit diff shows different results depending upon mode
The suggested edit view just showed me two drastically different views of content based on whether I was looking at the rendered mode or the markdown mode:
First, the rendered diff view, showing a ...
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Improve display of suggested edit deltas for format changes
When I see an edit that adds backtick formatting like this, the formatted view shows a lot more changed text than is actually the case. Specifically, whitespace before the opening backtick and the ...
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Diff shows tag being added and removed in the same revision
On this question's revisions (but I remember seeing it in other cases) the diff shows the same tag being both added and removed.
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Let me preview an edit so that it appears with the same style as revisions
I am editing a question and would like to preview my changes prior to saving. I can see how the page will look and can optionally hide this preview.
However, I would like to see the actual changes ...
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Allow linking to specific revision of revision history showing diff
Currently, the only way to link to a revision (clicking "link"), you just get a page which shows what the post looked like at that revision:
Personally, I rarely use this and haven't ever found ...
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Add an option for side-by-side diff before posting an edit
Now we have a nice side-by-side diff in the 'suggested edits' review pages, and as an option in edit history, could something similar be made available as an option when editing a post?
It wouldn't ...
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View history of changes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does Editing work in Stack Overflow?
How do I view the changes made to a question, in the SO-style visual diff?
I'm sure I've seen this before, but the "history" button ...
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MathJax rendering for suggested edit queue [duplicate]
I would like to suggest a new feature that when reviewing suggested edits on sites that support MathJax that the suggested edit queue renders the MathJax in the rendered output view. The following ...
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Please keep title edits display consistent with content edits
Currently if the user edits the title of an answer as well as the content, the title changes are viewed in place (on the left) and the content changes are separate, on the right.
As a result you have ...
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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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Why do revision comparisons have an add and a delete even when only one is necessary?
I made a few spacing edits to a question, changing some lines with 8 leading spaces into 4 leading spaces.
So why does the question's revision history say that, instead of removing 4 spaces, I ...
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Reviewed suggested edit view for title-only edits takes body of last revision?
Yesterday I was pointed at some rejected suggested edits. Some of the corrections were valid, so I edited the posts accordingly, while making several further edits. Looking at the suggested edits now ...
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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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Revision histories of posts show headings being removed and re-added every single revision, even if they aren't changed
If a post has heading markup and has been edited, the revision histories' inline and side-by-side views seem to show them all changing on each and every edit, even though they aren't edited at all. (...
