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Diff

Two API responses. A config before and after an edit. The JSON you expected versus the JSON you got. QlipLab compares any two clips from your history without a separate diff tool.

How to diff

  1. Press Alt+D to enter diff-selection mode.
  2. Click the two clips you want to compare.
  3. The diff opens as soon as the second is selected.

Press Escape to leave diff mode. (See Keyboard shortcuts.)

What you get

The comparison runs in a real Monaco diff editor — the same engine behind VS Code — not a homegrown line matcher. That means:

  • Line-level and intra-line highlighting: you see which lines changed and which characters within them.
  • Syntax coloring driven by the clips’ detected format, so a JSON diff reads like JSON and a SQL diff reads like SQL.
  • Two view modes you can toggle: side-by-side (old on the left, new on the right) and inline (changes stacked in one column).
  • Read-only — the diff is for reading, so there’s nothing to accidentally edit.

Because the diff is a genuine editor, large clips scroll smoothly and the minified-versus-formatted case still lines up sensibly.

A note on formatting

If two clips differ only in whitespace or key order, that shows up as a diff — the comparison is literal. When you want to compare meaning rather than bytes, beautify both clips first (JSON beautify, for instance) and diff the results; the formatting noise disappears and only the real changes remain.