Treating each line with a difference as a separate difference

[sdottaka]

Discussed in #2616

^{Originally posted by xeophyte January 15, 2025}
Is it possible to make each line with a difference treated as a separate difference when comparing files? Currently, if differences are in adjacent lines, it is treated as one difference. This makes no sense.

[meteorquake]

I would generally agree. Quite often I want to part-merge differences, and what would be most helpful is that you could swipe a highlight across lines and the wholly and partly encompassed differences can be merged across.
If two lines have 3 differences marked and you highlight across 2 of them, then the merge across would only normalise those two differences.
If nothing is selected then maybe a user option could determine what to do - copy the line or the entire block of lines.
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