Visual diffing: Merge changes across whitespace
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Current "word1 word2" -> "word3 word4" can render as

~~word1~~word3 ~~word2~~word4

However as the retain is just whitespace, a better diff would be

~~word1 word2~~word3 word4

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Update VE core submodule to master (a63435906)	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+1 -1
	VisualDiff: Merge remove+inserts separated by whitespace only	VisualEditor/VisualEditor	master	+32 -17

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T143341 When re-starting a local draft, show the user a diff so they know what they're getting into
Open	None	T105173 HTML diffs of edits for everything
Resolved	Tchanders	T143350 Let users choose a visual or wikitext diff in the review-your-changes tab
Resolved	Esanders	T160740 Visual diffing: Merge changes across whitespace

Change 343273 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor] VisualDiff: Move word split TODO to test

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 1.

Change 343273 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor] VisualDiff: Merge remove inserts separated by whitespace only

Change 343321 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor] Update VE core submodule to master (b2f4785d6)

Change 343321 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor] Update VE core submodule to master (a63435906)