Toggle color-words

[JakobEdvardsson]

Hello!

Right now lazygit only shows line-level diffs, which makes small intra-line changes (like added or removed function parameters) hard to spot. Git already supports word-level diffs via --word-diff / --color-words, but as far as I know lazygit doesn’t expose this.

It would be nice to have a way to toggle word-level diff highlighting, similar to how toggleWhitespaceInDiffView works.

Thanks!

[stefanhaller]

This was discussed before, and we even have a PR that adds it. It wasn't merged though, and I don't like it, for reasons discussed in that PR.

If you want to see small intra-line changes, I recommend to use a pager that shows them by default. The delta pager does a very good job at this.

If you insist on using git's --word-diff option, you can do that too using a custom pager configuration, see here.