Support Difftastic for visualizing code diffs

[laike9m]

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Describe the feature

Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. It supports over 30 programming languages. It would be nice to integrate it with Zed.

Its result is way better & cleaner than traditional diff

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[baldwindavid]

You may be suggesting a tighter integration with Difftastic, but tools like this can leverage tasks fairly easily. For example, viewing uncommitted changes with Difftastic...

{
  "label": "Uncommitted Changes",
  "command": "GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=difft git diff"
},

That could then be kicked off via command or a keybind like...

"space g d": [
  "task::Spawn",
  {
    "task_name": "Uncommitted Changes"
  }
]

[Killusions]

An integration would still bring advantages since (as is one of my favorite features of VSCode) it could allow both (free text) editing of the right hand side and still keep the language integrations.

This might be aided by the fact that it is also built upon tree-sitter AFAIK.