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What
Follow up to #80314, related to #79120.
The revisions code diff now calls out individual word changes when added and removed lines are similar. When they are not, it keeps the existing full-line treatment.
Why
Line-level coloring makes small text edits hard to spot in raw markup.
How
Like the classic revisions screen, it falls back to the full-line treatment when lines are too different for a useful word diff. Because this version runs in the browser, oversized changed blocks and timed-out word comparisons use the same fallback.
Word highlights are visual only, leaving the existing row announcements unchanged. Forced-colors mode uses a strikethrough for removed words and an underline for added words.
Testing Instructions
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I used Claude to help implement these changes. I guided the work, then tested and reviewed the result.