The first thing that pops to my minds is: write a wrapper app that manages
remembered folders, then calls meld w/ the appropriate arguments

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Matt Anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I’m new to Meld and have tried to search for this and have not found
> anything.  If this has already been requested and I missed it, I apologize.
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> I have used SourceGear DiffMerge for a while now and have grown rather
> fond of the context menu they have in Windows.
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> This lets the user open the file or folder in DiffMerge, but what I use
> this for is to Remember Folder for my first folder.
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> Then for the second folder I use the new context menu that pops up to
> compare the second folder with the remembered folder.  This does get a bit
> tedious with the multiple levels of contextual folders, but it does give
> good flexibility.  The remembered files and folders are stored in
> “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SourceGear\SourceGear
> DiffMerge\ShellExtension”.  The problem they have is the remembered files
> and folders never get deleted so I have a batch file that runs as a
> scheduled task to delete this folder and recreates it to clear all entries.
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> Something like this would be really nice to have as a part of Meld.  Even
> if what would happen from the Windows context menu was to bring up the UI
> and let the user select whether to do a diff or a 3 way merge and choose
> the other options needed.
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>
> Matt
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