Wilfred / difftastic

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No way to make non-syntactic changes visible

bmarwell opened this issue · comments

(1) A description of the issue. A screenshot is often helpful too.

When there's only a non-syntactic diff (eg whitespace in perl, java, python source code), difft shows no syntactic changes.

However, for usage with git diff, I would like to see even those changes.

(2) A copy of what you're diffing.

n/a

(3) The version of difftastic you're using (see difft --version) and
your operating system.

$ difft -V
Difftastic 0.55.0 (built with rustc 1.75.0)

Running on MacOS, aarch64

I agree this is sometimes useful, but it's quite hard to do with an AST diff. It might fit into the patch mode I'm looking at right now, but overall this is lower priority right now I'm afraid.

Thanks, and no worries... just consider it a request for enhanced.