this is NOT a new request ... just saying...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416387
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706695
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749244


On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Dimitri Komatitsch <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Kai,
>
> Thanks a lot for your answer, and also for letting me know that I just
> need to refresh after renaming the file from another window, that will
> solve my problem.
>
> As you suggest I will file a bug (or more precisely:
> improvement/suggestion) report.
>
> Best regards,
> Dimitri.
>
> On 07/08/2016 00:49, Kai Willadsen wrote:
>
>> On 4 August 2016 at 07:26, Dimitri Komatitsch
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Congratulations for meldmerge, which is great and extremely useful.
>>>
>>> What about adding an option to rename a file by right-clicking on it to
>>> open
>>> a menu and/or using F2?
>>>
>>> I have noticed that many times when we use it here to compare
>>> directories a
>>> file name in the directory may have slightly changed (for instance
>>> changing
>>> a letter from lower case to capital or similar) and then meld cannot
>>> compare
>>> them, I need to exit, rename the file and restart meld. Having a way of
>>> hitting F2 or right-clicking to rename the file would thus be very
>>> useful.
>>>
>>> If that option already exists please let me know; I have downloaded the
>>> latest stable release and have not seen it but let me know if there is a
>>> way
>>> of renaming.
>>>
>>
>> There's no way to do this within Meld at the moment. You also don't
>> need to quite and restart Meld after doing an external rename though;
>> you can just refresh the comparison.
>>
>> However, I can see how this could be useful. Could you please file a
>> bug report? (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=meld)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Kai
>>
>>
> --
> Dimitri Komatitsch
> CNRS Research Director (DR CNRS), Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics,
> UPR 7051, Marseille, France    http://komatitsch.free.fr
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