Hi, I am reading a thread from 2008 that supposedly describes how to INCORPORATE CHANGES in Text-Diff compared documents.
Has the app been updated since this 2008 thread? Sadly, I'm not finding the 2008 thread 'answer' to be clear. It's suggested the questioner use CTRL+R, but that is for reverting, not for incorporating changes. The original question was, Shouldn't Text-Diff be able to incorporate changes DIRECTLY IN THE SPLIT PANE VIEW? I really believe this is necessary. Maybe for coding this isn't too useful, but in everyday text editing, it's incredibly useful. I often find I've stored a copy of a TXT file in two different directories, and before I toss the older version, I want to make sure I didn't use that version AFTER I began making changes in the most recent version -- in other words, whether the older version has UNINCORPORATED changes that the new version needs. If I understood the 2008 post, there's no way to incorporate changes from within the split pane view. You must resort to CUTTING AND PASTING, and REMEMBERING THE RELEVANT LINE NUMBERS??? That seems like a complete waste of a perfectly good opportunity to make this simpler. So, has PSPad been updated since? If not, then this is a very strong feature request: 1. Each separate BLOCK of differences (in whatever color), should have a right-click context menu option to do one of three things: 1) EDIT THIS BLOCK, and 2) INCORPORATE INTO OPPOSITE BLOCK, and 3) REVERT/UNDO BLOCK. The EDIT BLOCK option is important, because when the differences aren't missing text, but changes in text, the user may want to edit a particular line, rather than incorporate all the differences. Secondly, WHEN THE BLOCK HAS BEEN INCORPORATED, the color shouldn't disappear -- the block should remain highlighted, but in a different way, so that the user knows exactly what changes have been made, and can revert them if needed, until the document has been closed. The color difference indicating changes incorporated could be a new color, or the block could simply be colored at the edges, or with a diagonal "stripe" in the original color. Thanks for your attention. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,45419,49914> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
