[resend, picky postmaster rejected the message]
> > There are several alternatives to represent the same information. E.g.,
> > instead of using a "start index" and "end index" it could be "index" and
> > "item count". You would then have:
> > from_index
> > from_count
> > to_index
> > to_count
> >
> > That looks OK to me. Does this also work for the byte values? How
> > about:
> > from_byte
> > from_length
>
> The modification can end in a line different from the starting line. So the
> from_length field needs to count the number of bytes in all the lines between
> the starting line and the ending line (including the newline characters).
> Then it will be difficult to compute the column number of the ending change
> in the last line. We need to use the from-startbyte and from-endbyte fields.
Right, if the "from" spans more than one line then "from_length" isn't
what we want. Using "from-startbyte" and "from-endbyte" should be OK,
it's just that the names are a bit long. This implies we should also
have "to-startbyte" and "to-endbyte", right?
In case the change only covers one item, the length can easily be
computed from "endbyte - startbyte".
Anyway, I hope this avoids the nested Dicts without making it
complicated.
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