Inline diffing should prioritize diffing whole words

[sindresorhus]

Unless the words are very long. AFAIK that's how Git diffing works too.

We don't want this (current):

[novemberborn]

Do you have suggestions for when a word is too long?

I assume this should go up to the word boundary /\b/, not just whitespace?

[sindresorhus]

Do you have suggestions for when a word is too long?

Something arbitrary. Maybe 30 characters? Wonder how the Git diff algorithm handles this.

I assume this should go up to the word boundary /\b/, not just whitespace?

Yes

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Some relevant resources:

• https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/
• https://gist.github.com/ndarville/3166060
• http://prettydiff.com/guide/unrelated_diff.xhtml

[novemberborn]

This may be useful: https://github.com/aceakash/string-similarity

[sindresorhus]

I think we should disable word diffing until we can implement something better. The diffing continues to be unusable. I’m often using console log.

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