Support diffs with substitutions

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the analysis in issue #474's linked comment, which explains why substitution support is desirable. Use that analysis to identify the required diff behavior and define completion as jsdiff supporting diffs with substitutions.

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Description

major-new-feature

See https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff/issues/474#issuecomment-1886906877 for my analysis of why this is a good idea.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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