Evolve toggling section of manual

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/manual/src/tips-and-tricks/toggling-delta-features.md b/manual/src/tips-and-tricks/toggling-delta-features.md
index 5bca1d7..4091b62 100644
--- a/manual/src/tips-and-tricks/toggling-delta-features.md
+++ b/manual/src/tips-and-tricks/toggling-delta-features.md
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
-To toggle features such as `side-by-side` on and off, one solution is to use this shell function:
+To toggle features such as `side-by-side` on and off, you need to *not* turn on `line-numbers` or `side-by-side` etc in your main delta config (`~/.gitconfig`). Then, one approach is to use the [`DELTA_FEATURES](../features-named-groups-of-settings.md)` environment variable:
+
+```sh
+export DELTA_FEATURES=+side-by-side
+```
+
+and to undo that:
+
+```sh
+export DELTA_FEATURES=+
+```
+
+To make that convenient, you could use this shell function:
 
 ```sh
 delta-toggle() {
@@ -17,4 +29,11 @@ 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.)
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+(It might make sense to add something like this Python script to `delta` itself.)
+
+Another approach is to use git aliases, e.g.
+
+```gitconfig
+[alias]
+    diff-side-by-side = -c delta.features=side-by-side diff
+```