Option to pipe git diff output to diff-so-fancy

[petobens]

I was wondering if it possible to use https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy to show diffs output instead of plain git diff? I don't have a clear idea if this even makes sense from within vmi so please close the issue if it doesn't or this is not possible/there is no plan to add such an option.

Thanks!

[junegunn]

Syntax highlighting is done within Vim using the following syntax definitions.

• https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/git.vim
• https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/diff.vim

If we want to keep the colors from diff-so-fancy, we would have to use terminal buffers instead of normal buffers, and it would require non-trivial changes to the plugin.

[petobens]

Thanks for the explanation!