To toggle features such as side-by-side
on and off, one solution is to use this shell function:
delta-toggle() {
eval "export DELTA_FEATURES='$(-delta-features-toggle $1 | tee /dev/stderr)'"
}
where -delta-features-toggle
is this Python script:
https://github.com/dandavison/tools/blob/main/python/-delta-features-toggle.
Then
delta-toggle # shows current features
delta-toggle s # toggles side-by-side
delta-toggle l # toggles line-numbers
(It might make sense to add something like this Python script to delta
itself.)