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kitty-diff - A fast side-by-side diff tool with syntax highlighting and images
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.. highlight:: sh
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Major Features
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.. container:: major-features
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* Displays diffs side-by-side in the kitty terminal
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* Does syntax highlighting of the displayed diffs, asynchronously, for maximum
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speed
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* Displays images as well as text diffs, even over SSH
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* Does recursive directory diffing
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.. figure:: ../screenshots/diff.png
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:alt: Screenshot, showing a sample diff
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:align: center
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:scale: 100%
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Screenshot, showing a sample diff
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.. contents::
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Installation
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---------------
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Simply install :ref:`kitty <quickstart>`. You also need
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to have either the `git <https://git-scm.com/>`_ program or the ``diff`` program
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installed. Additionally, for syntax highlighting to work,
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`pygments <http://pygments.org/>`_ must be installed (note that pygments is
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included in the macOS kitty app).
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Usage
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--------
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In the kitty terminal, run::
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kitty +kitten diff file1 file2
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to see the diff between file1 and file2.
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Create an alias in your shell's startup file to shorten the command, for example:
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.. code-block:: sh
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alias d="kitty +kitten diff"
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Now all you need to do to diff two files is::
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d file1 file2
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You can also pass directories instead of files to see the recursive diff of the
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directory contents.
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Keyboard controls
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----------------------
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========================= ===========================
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Action Shortcut
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========================= ===========================
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Quit ``q, Ctrl+c``
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Scroll line up ``k, up``
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Scroll line down ``j, down``
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Scroll page up ``PgUp``
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Scroll page down ``PgDn``
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Scroll to top ``Home``
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Scroll to bottom ``End``
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Scroll to next page ``Space, PgDn``
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Scroll to previous page ``PgUp``
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Scroll to next change ``n``
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Scroll to previous change ``p``
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Increase lines of context ``+``
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Decrease lines of context ``-``
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All lines of context ``a``
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Restore default context ``=``
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========================= ===========================
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Configuration
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------------------------
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You can configure the colors used, keyboard shortcuts, the diff implementation,
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the default lines of context, etc. by creating a :file:`diff.conf` file in
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your :ref:`kitty config folder <confloc>`. See below for the supported
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configuration directives.
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.. include:: /generated/conf-kitten-diff.rst
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Integrating with git
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-----------------------
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Add the following to `~/.gitconfig`:
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.. code-block:: ini
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[diff]
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tool = kitty
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guitool = kitty.gui
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[difftool]
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prompt = false
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trustExitCode = true
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[difftool "kitty"]
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cmd = kitty +kitten diff $LOCAL $REMOTE
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[difftool "kitty.gui"]
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cmd = kitty kitty +kitten diff $LOCAL $REMOTE
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Now to use kitty-diff to view git diffs, you can simply do::
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git difftool --no-symlinks --dir-diff
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Once again, creating an alias for this command is useful.
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Command Line Interface
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-------------------------
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.. include:: /generated/cli-kitten-diff.rst
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Why does this work only in kitty?
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----------------------------------------
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The diff kitten makes use of various features that are :doc:`kitty only
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</protocol-extensions>`, such as the :doc:`kitty graphics protocol
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</graphics-protocol>`, the :ref:`extended keyboard protocol
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<extended-key-protocol>`, etc. It also leverages terminal program
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infrastructure I created for all of kitty's other kittens to reduce the amount
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of code needed (the entire implementation is under 2000 lines of code).
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And fundamentally, it's kitty only because I wrote it for myself, and I am
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highly unlikely to use any other terminals :)
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