Re: RFC - fixing comparison feature

Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:27:40 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.editors.lyx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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


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