Track changes using interactive markdown editor

Question

Is there a way to get the interactive markdown editor to do basically what a word processors "track changes" does.

For example, the editor is pre-loaded with the following text.

The small brown dog jumped over the lazy fox

Then the user changes the text to the following:

The small brown dog jumped under the lazy fox

I want the following to be displayed:

The small brown dog jumped ~~over~~under the lazy fox

Does pagedown (or any other interactive web-based markdown editor) have such a feature?

Better discussion on this topic across here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35945728/ms-word-track-changes-and-rmarkdown — Evolve, Nov 07 '22 at 12:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '13 at 13:27

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It's not fully integrated into your editor, but you can get this effect with some of the javascript diff implementations. jsdiff, for example, does what you're describing: http://kpdecker.github.com/jsdiff/ . Xindiff also does this.

answered Mar 25 '13 at 13:27

Hugo Mallinson

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Link is rotten. – Stefan_EOX Jul 07 '22 at 08:12

Track changes using interactive markdown editor

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