word diff view: something similar to ms-office revisions

[Nadano]

Edited for clarity:

I'm trying to have people in my team work with git, and I believe it would make things way more clear for them to have diff results that are similar to the ones used in word revisions.

Looking into the options I believe "git diff --color-word=." is the most natural for people used to office tools, explained here

[cristian3d]

Upvoted!

But, please, don't forget about this one #3562 . It'd be a huge improvement, and is a standard feature. Or at least comment why is not possible, so we stop dreaming about it :)

[hediet]

I think this shouldn't be too hard to implement (but it is also not trivial).

My suggested attack plan would look like this:

• Add a new settings (e.g. diffEditor.inlineView.inlineWordDiffs) - default false (I think if this works well we can turn it on by default later)
• If set, diff hunks where each inner (character-level) range diff is single line and not too big shouldn't get the viewzone
• Instead, the deleted part should be rendered using a decoration and injected text.

[hediet]

/duplicate of #176969