Syntax Highlight

[avielg]

For a while, I've been dreaming about syntax highlighting in GitUp diff view, so I decided to see what it takes.
I managed to get a "poor man's highlight" working, via some regex.

1. Is this on par with GitUp's goals / vision?
2. Can we do this in a way that won't tank performance for large files?
3. Can we do this well enough using regex so it doesn't make awkward mistakes too often? (or is there another way?)

I saw a previous request for this (#619) but it didn't have much attention so I'm not sure whether this is something folks are interested in?

Below are screenshots of the current hacky implementation, I am happy to keep it as a personal fork, or work with folks here to bring it to GitUp if there's demand and folks are available for code review & feedback (:

The code (note - it is very hacky, prototype level) is in this branch on my fork -> https://github.com/avielg/GitUp/tree/feature/syntax-high

[ali72x]

+1

[lucasderraugh]

Would be great!

[lucasderraugh]

Going to close this out however since there is the existing open ticket. Duplicate of #619.