Am Dienstag, 27. März 2007 08:49 schrieb Vicent Mas: > El Monday, 26 de March de 2007 18:49 Detlev Offenbach escribió: > > On Montag, 26. März 2007, Vicent Mas wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to use the version control capabilities of eric4, mainly > > > diff and commit operations. However they have an unexpected (at > > > least for me) behavior. First I open the difference window, then I > > > open the commit one but, once the commit window becomes active, the > > > difference window (the rest of eric in fact) cannot be activated > > > again, the only usable window is the commit one. Normally I write > > > detailed commit logs so I need to read the diffs when I'm writing. > > > But the current behavior doesn't allow me to do it. > > > > > > Is this the expected behavior? > > > > Yes, the commit dialog is a modal dialog. > > Hi again, > > yes, I know that the dialog is modal. But my point wasn't about it being > modal or not. The subject was usability. Currently the commit dialog > makes impossible to review the diffs when you are writing the commit > log. I think that doing this review is something quite common (at least > for me :-). IMHO the usability of this eric capability would increase a > lot if diffs could be accessed in the commit dialog (as they can, for > instance, in the Tortoise SVN gui). Just an opinion. You can > disagree, of course :-)
Accessing the diffs during commit would raise the quality of [my] commit messages heavily, and thus the quality of working with eric and VCSs. Therefor I strongly vote for this feature. Pete _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
