reconcile/docs/advanced-ts.md
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# Advanced Usage (TypeScript)
## Edit Provenance
Track which changes came from where using `reconcileWithHistory`:
```javascript
const result = reconcileWithHistory(
'Hello world',
'Hello beautiful world',
'Hi world'
);
console.log(result.text); // "Hi beautiful world"
console.log(result.history); /*
[
{
"text": "Hello",
"history": "RemovedFromRight"
},
{
"text": "Hi",
"history": "AddedFromRight"
},
{
"text": " beautiful",
"history": "AddedFromLeft"
},
{
"text": " ",
"history": "Unchanged"
},
{
"text": "world",
"history": "Unchanged"
}
]
*/
```
## Tokenisation Strategies
`reconcile-text` offers different approaches to split text for merging:
- **Word tokeniser** (`"Word"`) - Splits on word boundaries (recommended for prose)
- **Character tokeniser** (`"Character"`) - Individual characters (fine-grained control)
- **Line tokeniser** (`"Line"`) - Line-by-line (similar to `git merge` or more precisely [`git merge-file`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge-file))
## Cursor Tracking
`reconcile-text` automatically tracks cursor positions through merges, which is useful for collaborative editors. Selections can be tracked by providing them as a pair of cursors.
```javascript
const result = reconcile(
'Hello world',
{
text: 'Hello beautiful world',
cursors: [{ id: 1, position: 6 }], // After "Hello "
},
{
text: 'Hi world',
cursors: [{ id: 2, position: 0 }], // At the beginning
}
);
// Result: "Hi beautiful world" with repositioned cursors
console.log(result.text); // "Hi beautiful world"
console.log(result.cursors); // [{ id: 2, position: 0 }, { id: 1, position: 3 }]
```
> The `cursors` list is sorted by character position (not IDs).