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by jessekorzan 3028 days ago
Nice eye. Thanks for this... good enhancement. A good option for display, as it depends on what kind of numbers are being displayed and compared (fractions vs. big whole numbers).
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In my case I was thinking of long strings such as SQL queries. We would show a few initial words, but in SQL they're typically the same.

For example:

    select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'West'             
    select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'South'
In this case I think we want the distinguishing word or token, and we can fill the remaining space with text from the left, eg "select sum(sales)..'South'".

I could write out some javascript for this, but IANA front-end or css expert.