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theJayTea / WritingTools

The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, and other cloud providers.
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[Feature] Option to compare text with original selection #25

Open Seviks opened 3 weeks ago

Seviks commented 3 weeks ago

While immediate text replacement is often preferred, there are instances where comparing the new text to the existing one is beneficial.

Could you consider implementing a switch for appending or replacing text in the pop-up window? If set to "append text," the text would be inserted below the selected content. Naturally, there may be more effective methods to implement such a feature.

theJayTea commented 3 weeks ago

That’s an interesting proposition. Although, have you considered this: The most effective way to compare (for me) is to keep cycling over ctrl+z, followed by ctrl+y. The changes made (for instance, with proofread) will be pretty obvious this way :)

Seviks commented 3 weeks ago

Yes, this is how I/we do it today. However, if it is used to alter several sentences, it can become difficult to notice the changes. In any case, I don't want to request it only for myself; perhaps we can gather more pro and con arguments.

minzdrav commented 1 week ago

Hi folks, +1 for changes preview. It can be useful if I don't want to change the text. For example, I want to ask AI to explain the code that's been selected in Visual Studio (yes, I can use a VS plugin for that) or summarize history from chat.