Support word wrap in the diff editor

[bpasero]

I cannot get word wrapping enabled in a diff editor when using that action but maybe there is no word wrapping for diff editors?

[alexdima]

Yes, word wrapping was never supported in diff editor -- has to do with aligning lines that wrap.

[bpasero]

Got it 👍

[vogler]

It would be nice if the diff editor also respected the word wrap setting.

Another related issue:
Both panes scroll in sync - but only to their content's width instead of the maximum of both panes.
So if I scroll on the left and come to a change where the right version is longer, I have to move the mouse to the right pane in order to be able to scroll to the end of the line.

[Fania]

I work on Latex projects with long paragraphs of text. Find and replace is almost unusable without word wrap. I can see how it wouldn't bother me much on my python projects maybe, but in Latex it's terrible.

[jakearchibald]

I'm a huge fan of vscode, but this is a blocker for me when it comes to using it for diffing.

[matt-cooper]

Is there some way to configure VS Code so that it launches an external Diff Tool instead (e.g. Araxis Merge) as a temporary workaround until this issue is fixed? (Even if I have to manually click a button to launch the the 3rd party diff tool.)

-edit-
I found a solution by adding this to my ~/.gitconfig file:

[mergetool "araxis"]
	path = /Applications/Araxis Merge.app/Contents/Utilities/compare
[diff]
    tool = araxis
[merge]
    tool = araxis

and then installed the "GitDiffer" VSCode extension and now when I right click a file in the Source Control tab of my VSCode window, the "Launch difftool for ..." context menu item will then launch Araxis Merge. Multiple selection doesn't work though (cannot select all changed files and load all of their diffs) but this is a good enough workaround for now.

[Dominik-K]

@alexandrudima If aligning lines is the blocker for this request, then the "flowing lines" diff view

mentioned in #25887 would solve this, right?