I do not understand advantages of the new UI concerning 'folder comparisons'.
I use BBEdit along with an IDE, to perform tasks that aren't dealt with the efficiency that come with BBEdit usage and tools. One of them, was folder vs folder comparison of sub-projects (dependencies and the like) between major versions (think of it as a way, to grasp all changes in time, and then latter understand them, reading git or other SCV history). The old UI, was perfect for this, as it could do a lot and present a clean 'before/after' where is was also efficient to patch or amend some modifications, without having a risk to affect the 'targets'. It was a speedy process, as we could use down/up key to go from files differences to an other and when pressing enter, see the file by file differences. Clear, lean, fine, quite useful ! The new UI, come with the idea, that creating 'missing' file or folder is a key need, where it wasn't ! So we have now a UI, that when used, is dangerous as it could change folders content by an inadvertent click to the 'missing arrow' and without much notice you then see modification to an history, where you were used to have confidence in BBEdit. I understand, that it could be useful to 'align' folder differences in their content, but if the usage of such tool, is 80% on 'file difference', it is a quite rude choice to ignore the usage, in profit of a 'feature' that is used by a lesser number of users. At least a choice of having the old 'list of file differences' vs 'structure difference' should be offered. A tool is more useful when its usage is more predictable, it is where the trust in it lies. In that regards/function BBEdit is for me a regression and I'm tempted to stick to older release just for that point. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
