Copy/replace/add left <-> right in compare views

[Dominik-K]

In the compare views, it would be nice to have

• "Copy to left/right"
• "Replace left (with right)/right (with left)"
• "Add above/down left/right"

in all views, i.e. the side-by-side and the unified view (there with other text than "left/right").

Now, I need to select the text and copy-paste it. In the unified view, I even can't select the text from the compared file ("left" file in side-by-side view).

A nice UI would be the one as in Meld:

Related: #24390 (but only wanted for staging VCS diffs)
Blocked by: #4180 ?

[gulshan]

Similar proposal by me following git merge inline actions- #30519

[elgrafico]

I miss that feature as well. Good old NetBeans has a a similar intuitive approach:

Only the right side can be edited though, but there's a "swap" button right above the diff to mitigate that ;-)

[otienoanyango]

+1 This would be really useful to have. Any hope of this

[rkotenko]

This is probably my biggest problem with VS Code so far. We are trying to drop Intellij, which lets you compare any two files and copy right and left with ease.

[bradkemper]

I was very surprised that this did not already exist in VS Code. BBEdit isn't perfect, but it does have that.