A right click on a diff line opens the place it names: its file, the hunk's new line, the line itself

2026-10-01T03:12:17Z

In a diff pane (a .diff/.patch file, or a command pane's diff output), the look's own expansion, which its hover shows, takes a whole line for a `diff --git`, `---`, `+++` or `@@` line wherever the pointer is on it, markers included, and for a hunk line when the pointer is on its `+`, `-` or space. Then the look opens the file (a/ b/ dropped, timestamps cut) at the line from the hunk header and the lines above it: `@@` the hunk's first new line, context and added lines their own, a removed line the new line now where it was. `diff --git` and `+++` open the new file; `---` the old one, unless the `+++` under it names another. On a hunk line's code the expansion is its words, the prefix never one of them, and looks as ever. Other panes are untouched. Paths resolve in the repository (walking up to `.git` or `.jj` from the diff's directory, or a command pane's), then that directory. A file not here opens nothing and says `Look: b/x: no such file here`, or `deleted by this diff`. A 9P look writing a whole line of the diff does the same. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

A diff reads as the code it changes: hunks in their file's language, added and removed rows tinted

2026-10-01T03:12:17Z

A .diff or .patch pane, and a command pane whose output is a diff (`git diff`, `git show`, `diff -u`; told by a `diff --git` line, or `---`/`+++` with a `@@` under them, in its first rows), colour each hunk's code in the language of the file its section names (`+++ b/`, `--- a/` for a deleted file), with tree-sitter, as highlightLocations does for results. src/diff.zig walks a unified diff by its `@@` counts, so a removed line that reads `--- x` is no header. Each side of a hunk is parsed as one text (context and removed lines the old side, context and added lines the new), so a string or comment across lines colours as it does in the file; a side no line takes its colours from is not parsed. A section's hunks share a parse, in pieces of about 40 lines (a hunk past 80 is cut), only those in view, and each piece's colours are kept by its bytes, so scrolling back and a terminal's every repaint parse nothing again. Added and removed lines carry a flag in their style byte; the painter tints their rows to the pane's edge, a little way from the page toward the theme's ANSI green or red, and draws the prefix in that hue pushed to read on it. A file in no known language keeps the old line colours. A command pane is read once its command has finished: its rows are copied once (File.DiffOutput, dropped when the pane runs again), so no frame dumps the scrollback, and painted over what git printed. A running command is shown as it prints. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

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A right click on a diff line opens the place it names: its file, the hunk's new line, the line itself

A diff reads as the code it changes: hunks in their file's language, added and removed rows tinted