A couple of weeks ago I introduced Semantic Line Breaks as a way to improve the readability of richtext formats, like Markdown. One reader, Joel Clermont, wrote back with an alternative solution: diff-highlight. And not only did he write to tell me about it, but he wrote a post explaining it all!

I also came upon diff-so-fancy which expands this capability even more, optionally providing:

• Prettier hunk indicators
• pretty-formatting the diff headers for each file
• Removing the leading + or - sign from each line, which are redundant when using colors
• customizable colors
• and more