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Customisable diff context
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

Allow the user to customise the number of lines of context in the diff (that is, the number of unchanged lines to display above and below the changed line)

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

Editing on Wiktionary, where lines of wikitext are typically short (the standard 2 lines of context above and below is often insufficient to orient yourself)
Editing Wikipedia infoboxes

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

So you can see what you're doing without having to scroll around in the edit box. I know you can click on the diff and AWB will scroll you to the corresponding line in the edit box - but even then, AWB puts the line you clicked on at the top of the edit box rather than in the middle, so you can't easily see what's above it!