SMRTR ProgrammingApr 5, 2026Hacker News

A Textual widget for beautiful diffs in the terminal

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Textual Diff View is a new terminal widget that displays beautiful side-by-side or unified file comparisons with syntax highlighting, showing deleted lines in red and added lines in green. Originally created for the Toad application, the standalone widget offers features like color-blind accessibility through annotations, multiple viewing modes, and integration with Python's Textual framework. Users can install it via PyPI and easily integrate it into terminal applications to visualize code changes and file differences with professional-looking output.

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