Vscode-pull-request-github: "Cannot toggle word wrap in a diff editor"

[octogonz]

The diff view is always side-by-side. However if you have long lines, you have to scroll horizontally to see what has changed. My monitor is actually in "portrait" not "landscape" dimensions (1600x1200), so the side-by-side view already provides a fairly narrow view.

Feature request: The experience would be much better if I could enable word-wrap in this view. When I try VS Code's command "Toggle Word Wrap", I get an error message: "Cannot toggle word wrap in a diff editor"

[octogonz]

Another option would be to support inline diffs like the GitHub web site.

[RMacfarlane]

Hey @octogonz, there is an upstream issue in VSCode asking for word wrap in diff views: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/11387.

It is currently possible to toggle to an inline diff, if you run the Compare: Toggle Inline View command. The diffView.renderSideBySide setting can also be used for this. There's an issue with the commenting widget when inlined, where comments on the base file are hidden (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/issues/160), which we don't have a good solution to right now but hope to fix.

Hope that helps, please go thumbs-up those issues and add any feedback there. Thanks!

[octogonz]

It is currently possible to toggle to an inline diff, if you run the Compare: Toggle Inline View command. The diffView.renderSideBySide setting can also be used for this.

@RMacfarlane This was pretty helpful, thanks!