Various character tokens are used throughout diffs to provide visual cues.
For example, gutters will contain characters that denote deletions and
insertions (<
and >
by default).
character(1L) text to use as visual cue to indicate whether a diff line is an insertion, defaults to “> ”
character(1L) if a diff line is wrapped, the visual cue shifts to this character to indicate wrapping occured
character(1L) see gutter.insert
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert.ctd
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert.ctd
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert.ctd
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert
above
character(1L) see gutter.insert.ctd
above
character(1L) separator between gutter characters and the rest of a line in a diff
character(1L) separator between columns in side by side mode
a StyleText S4 object