✨ Syntax highlighted diff output ✨

[Shivansh-007]

A bit hacky but it works, I haven't completely tested it with diff-shades but have tested the _diff.py lib separately.

Btw, I am logged out of discord and can't log in back (my phone broke and I can't find the recovery codes 😔), so keep the conversation here.

And happy new year! (a bit late)

[ichard26]

Thanks for working on this. I'm not a big fan of how much complexity this introduces for just the diff functionality especially as I'm a bit worried about the maintainability of it. I actually just had another idea how do this inspired from this article. It's pretty likely it won't work as I'd want it to but if it does the benefits are 1) way less hacky code, and 2) correct behaviour with multiline strings and similar constructs. Performance will suffer but performance doesn't matter too much if we're displaying a colored diff to the user anyway. I'll look into this later this week. actually I don't think this will work as it doesn't account for inline colors in the highlighted lines >.<

Concretely, this branch is a bit out of date (which is important because I just refactored the whole test suite), it needs some typing fixes, and quite a bit of glue code with the commands to handle light themed terminals. I can take over and see if I can resolve these issues myself. I know I've described diff-shades as a hacky bit of software but I'm trying to slowly undo that (eg. see the brand new test suite on main) 🙂

[Shivansh-007]

Sure, that would be great. Let me know if you come across any difficulty 👍

[Shivansh-007]

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[Shivansh-007]

Would appreciate another look at this, bumping in case you forgot this PR exists :D

[Shivansh-007]

Hey @ichard26, hope you are doing well. Do you have any plans on proceeding with this addition?