Integrate vim's diffopt and other option control into splice

[errael]

This discussion is prompted by #16, opened by @dlamotte.

toggle whitespace diff ... in the menu

Good idea; my first thought is what menu? the HUD? Some possibilities are a context menu, typically right-click, with options. The window would have checkboxes. If there's non boolean options, there could be text fields and/or radio buttons.

What options are important to include? I'll have to look at the code, but wrap might be inherited; don't remember. Would be nice to toggle from inside splice.

Maybe could squeeze one button into the HUD, which brings up a config window of some sort. Like the window which comes up when you click Splice Commands:. Changing the HUD as little as possible is a goal (at least for now).

And probably want any things that could be done through an options window to be doable through a keyboard shortcut. Wonder what that could look like without too much polution.

In the DirDiff vim plugin there's the following which is a little cumbersome.

Options: 'u'=update,'x'=set excludes,'i'=set ignore,'a'=set args, 'h'=hex mode, 'w'=wrap mode

[dlamotte]

HUD and menu. Same thing right? Maybe it's confusing for gvim users (maybe menu refers to clickable dropdowns idk). I use just vim so the top options in the "HUD" in splice are the menu to me.

Regardless, I suppose I can figure out how to bind it in vim directly. Just an idea.

[errael]

HUD and menu. Same thing right

I wasn't sure what you meant. I've seen the phrase Menu Bar used for something similar to the HUD.

I think hooking into diffopt is a good idea, I'd like to use that feature myself. Just wondering about the UI. A scheme that requires a new button in the HUD for each option doesn't grow very well. I've been wondering about how incorporate something for

• Use hunks from both 1 and 2 sjl/splice.vim#30

Maybe one HUD button for u1+u2 and one for a diffopt popup.

Either way, I won't be working on new features for splice9 for a while. If you come up with a mapping, it could be useful for others if you share it in this discussion or in #16.

[errael]

With Splice9 v1.0.0-RC3 there is

• Diff Options button brings up a dialog for setting vim's diffopt and wrap options.
• u0: use both is a new splice9 command.

Still want a way to set up shortcuts for diff options.