What if: text editor that stored diffs using the same data structure as Goggle docs ( or your favorite non-evil equivalent ) to build the diffs.
Would be so much more accurate, just sayin’
Although of course new problems would arise
this is either gonna work really well or be really bad. Who knows? I personally think code columns would be great if used for something like... I dunno... organization? like, you define functions in one column, the main code is in another column, and so on and so forth, and perhaps, and maybe and
soup and salad and sandwich and equating the universe, and Shakespeare and helicopter and Brutus and et tu brute and Odyssey, and I dunno and maybe and definitely and pillow fight and Nintendo and Sega and Konomi and Activision and the and a and an and somebody once told me and sans and papyrus.
Yes, I did start out with a genuine idea and then waste your time. Don't blame me, by the second one, you should have caught on to the Jumping Octopus Kelvin Equation.