# Features

- Language syntax highlighting with color themes
- Within-line highlights based on a Levenshtein edit inference algorithm
- Side-by-side view with line-wrapping
- Line numbering
- `n` and `N` keybindings to move between files in large diffs, and between diffs in `log -p` views (`--navigate`)
- Improved merge conflict display
- Improved `git blame` display (syntax highlighting; `--hyperlinks` formats commits as links to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket etc)
- Syntax-highlights grep output from `rg`, `git grep`, `grep`, etc
- Support for Git's `--color-moved` feature.
- Code can be copied directly from the diff (`-/+` markers are removed by default).
- `diff-highlight` and `diff-so-fancy` emulation modes
- Commit hashes can be formatted as terminal hyperlinks to the GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket page (`--hyperlinks`). File paths can also be formatted as hyperlinks for opening in your OS.
- Stylable box/line decorations to draw attention to commit, file and hunk header sections.
- Git style strings (foreground color, background color, font attributes) are supported for >20 stylable elements

| delta | git | diff-so-fancy / diff-highlight | github/gitlab
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
language syntax highlighting | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅
within-line insertion/deletion detection | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅
multiple insertion/deletions detected per line | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅
matching of unequal numbers of changed lines | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌
independently stylable elements | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌
line numbering | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅
side-by-side view | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅

In addition, delta handles traditional unified diff output.