delta

I use delta as a diff tool: https://github.com/dandavison/delta It also offers contextual information as well as side-by-side diffs. For syntax highlighting, it uses the same as bat (the cat clone).

That's neat. I'll get it working with Delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta), which makes diffs look much nicer.

And I am working on implementing color-moved support https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/72

If you use git diffs frequently, I recommend setting up delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

You could use `git log -p` instead of `git log` so that the diff is included. To navigate efficiently between the commits, you could pre-seed less with a regex that matches commit (and file) lines, so that "n" and "N" jump from one commit (or file) to the next, something like this LESS="-R --pattern ^(commit|diff) " git log -p Delta[1] makes this convenient: delta --navigate. [1] https://github.com/dandavison/delta (Disclosure: I am the author of delta)

I myself have really enjoyed `delta` and the variety of configuration it has: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

One of the biggest upgrades from using fish is syntax highlighting / autocompletion. You can get fish-style syntax highlighting and autocomplete in zsh (which has the advantage of being more interoperable with bash generally): [zsh-syntax-highlighting](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting) [zsh-autosuggestions](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions) Poster mentioned "modern alternatives exist" with good colorization options. Some of my favorite colorized feature-rich alternatives: ls -> [exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) cat -> [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) du -> [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) diff -> [delta](https://github.com/dandavison/delta) In combination with all of the above, [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) suddenly becomes a syntax-highlighter preview-pane via leveraging bat (or delta

Looks like delta has an open issue: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/86

At least one of the other tools in this thread does both. (Rather than visualising add/rm with the foreground, it's visualised with the background colour). https://github.com/dandavison/delta

Delta is a similar tool with syntax highlighting for most programming languages and customizable themes: https://github.com/dandavison/delta It doesn't have side-by-side diffs, but it's still well worth having around. It's a Unix filter, so it works on any unified diff you can come up with. Its default output isn't a unified diff, but that's easy to fix with its configuration / CLI options (I'm too used to reading unified diffs to like delta's simplified default format).

Almost each of the non-macOS tools was once used daily by me, but I've since switched to even better ones in some/all use-cases. zsh + zinit [0] + powerlevel10k [1] > fish + starship. Powerlevel10k and zinit make prompt initialization time with all my plugins much lower than the equivalent setup in fish; I can start typing as soon as I open a terminal without breaking up my prompt. gotop/ytop complement glances/htop. They offer a really sleek TUI that uses braille characters to draw graphs. Poetry > Virtualenv for working in venvs in Python projects. Distro packages > pyenv, rbenv, nodeenv. Most distros provide packages for multiple interpreter versions, and only use one by default. For example, Fedora uses symlinks: /bin/python -> /bin/python3 -> /bin/python3.8; I also have python3.9 beta, python3.7, and python3.6 installed for testing.

(delta author here) Line numbers have been added to delta in a contributed PR: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/pull/190. It will merge soon and be in the next release. And we have an open issue for side-by-side view: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/86. I definitely plan to get to it! The next release of delta will also provide diff-so-fancy and diff-highlight emulation modes. See https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/205

I'm maintaining Delta and trying to help out a bit with Eglot -- an Emacs LSP (Language Server Protocol) project, and trying to improve my Rust and Lisp along the way. LSP in Emacs with Eglot is fantastic (especially for Rust, but also Python. Those are the only ones I've tried so far.) https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot

Thanks, that's definitely a feature that could be added. My original thought was that the line numbers in the after file are nearly always what one wants, since that's the version that your editor will most naturally be displaying. And I wanted to reduce visual clutter. Delta currently displays just the first line number of each diff hunk; not on every line. But that's also something that could be made configurable. EDIT: In fact an issue was opened for this very recently: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/130 Ideally, I think that a mouse click in an appropriate location in a terminal emulator window should open the user's editor on the correct line of the correct file.

It does not, but it seems like a popular request: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/40