Re: RFC - fixing comparison feature
Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:27:40 -0400
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On 7/29/26 5:08 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Hi, > > I see lyx comparison feature broken for main two reasons: > > 1) it produces char-like diffs spilled across the words and sentences even for word-like changes which makes it totally unreadable for naked eye (bug #6889) > 2) it's superslow on any non trivial changeset Agreed. And your plan looks plausible enough to me, though I do not know much at all about diff algorithms. But I do think a mixture of word and character level diffs is most useful. If it weren't too difficult, a preference setting for word-only diffs might be welcome. That would speed things up a ton. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel