Sounds like you would just need to modify the action and the enablement logic, and then give the UI the ability to show history for multiple files in one ui.
-Tim On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:58 AM mark stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 22 Aug 2018, at 08:29, Christian Lenz <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > That sounds great to me, I often wondering, why is „Show history“ > deactivated, when I’ve selected a Folder or a Project. Local history for > more then only a single file, makes much more sense 😊 > > The short answer is that the code detects and switches it off…. With > NetBeans easy to download and run in NetBeans it is relatively > straight-forward to set some breakpoints and find it in ShowHistoryAction > in the method protected boolean enable(Node[] activatedNodes) > > I am trying to see if I can add in the code to provide this multi-file > support. As it looks similar to what happens in Git/Diff, that is why I am > hacking around there first to see what I can reuse…. > > My plan is to document it all in a series of blog posts on hacking the > NetBeans IDE. There is also a talk at I am doing at CodeOne Conference San > Francisco in October called Hacking the NetBeans IDE[BOF4760]. There might > just be a connection…. > > Kind Regards, > > MArk > -- http://timboudreau.com
