sad VS delta

also check out sad a more intuitively named sd that allows for fancy pipe input

If i were to write this in a faster language, it would be in Rust, since I already have a relativly successful CLI text edit tool written in it, and it's fast as fuck too.

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "sad"

https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad - when you need PCRE in sed

what you really want is sad, https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad

sad CLI search and replace | Space Age seD tcount Count your code by tokens, types of syntax tree nodes, and patterns in the syntax tree. A tokei/scc/cloc alternative. nushell A new type of shell fclones Efficient Duplicate File Finder hunter The fastest file manager in the galaxy! teip Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command efficiently cb Command line interface to manage clipboard semiuniq A uniq-like tool for removing nearby repeated lines in a file" dua-cli View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast. htmlq Like jq, but for HTML. pipecolor A terminal filter to colorize output crowbook Converts books written in Markdown to HTML, LaTeX/PDF and EPUB delta A viewer for git and diff output mdcat cat for markdown pueue Manage your shell commands. gitui Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀 pipr A tool to interactively write shell pipelines. rename Rename your files using your favorite text editor bropages Highly readable supplement to man pages from http://bropages.org. Shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting. html2md convert simple html documents into markdown bk Terminal Epub reader rs A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard. viu Simple terminal image viewer written in Rust. alacritty A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. wezterm A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

Check it out at my github

sad

Thanks, if you like it you can also try my batch text editor.

Thanks for the difftastic & zoxide tips.

However, I've been using this git pager/difftool: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

While it's not structural like difft, it does produce more readable output for me (at least when scrolling fast through git log -p /scanning quickly

View on GitHub

I'm currently waiting on the integration between Delta and Difftastic:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/535

Difftastic now has JSON output, whic should make it much easier to build this.

I'm surely in the minority here. I've been using Emacs for almost a decade now, but I just can't get into the Magit workflow. I've tried several times, but always end up going back to Git on the command line. I have dozens of aliases, shell integrations, a nice diff viewer[1], etc., and interacting with Git has become muscle memory. I can commit, cherry-pick, rebase, bisect, fix conflicts, etc., in a fraction of the time it would take me to navigate Magit's UI. I'm sure with enough practice, a Magit user could do this more quickly and efficiently, but honestly, with some custom-built porcelain, Git's UI is not so bad. Though this could very well be Stockholm syndrome after using it for such a long time...

For whatever reason, Magit's opinionated workflows never clicked with me. A part of it is the concern that it will do something weird to my repo that I'll then have to waste more time undoing manually. I usually don't trust sugary wrappers around tools. And another is the fact I don't use Emacs on all machines, and setting up Git on a remote system is just a matter of copying over my config and some shell integrations.

Also, on a more personal note, I find the cultish fanboyism whenever Magit is brought up slightly offputting. Does anyone have anything bad to say about it? No software can realistically be this infallible. :)

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

For looking at diffs I still prefer the command line though, and use delta to view diffs between commits or branches.