On 9 March 2017 at 00:15, John Ulvr <[email protected]> wrote: > You should be able to cut/paste/edit the path of the files you are > comparing. My problem is that I usually compare files from different > branches of code, where only the top directory name changes. So, for > example, I might want to compare > //home/john/workspace1/product1/release43/drivers/char/foo/foo.c with > //home/john/workspace2/product1/release43/drivers/char/foo/foo.c. The > problem is that currently to do that, I have to select my first file, and > then go all the way back to my root, and renavigate the entire tree to get > my second file. This is not overly convenient. If I could edit the path > and just change the one directory, it would be much faster.
This has been a common feature request, and basically we haven't done this because we're using upstream GTK+ widgets, and I have bad experiences trying to maintain such a custom widget in the past. That doesn't necessarily mean that we'll keep using the exact UI we have. Also, you don't actually have to do what you describe. Hitting Ctrl+L in the normal file chooser will get you a path entry where you can copy/paste/etc. > Allow an auto-reload option. The file merge window can detect if a file > has changed, and if so it asks if you want to reload or hide. It would be > nice to have a third button, auto-reload, which would mean that every time > it detects that the file has changed, it automatically reloads without > prompting. Having it remember the line number the cursor was on, after > reload would also be nice for this feature. (again, for justification: I > do my editing in source insight. I often want to see what’s changed. > However, if I modify a file outside of source insight, source insight looses > all it’s bookmarks, etc. So I often have Source Insight open on one > screen, and Meld on the other, but I make all the changes in SI…). I can see why you'd want this, but I feel like our current behaviour is more consistent with existing editors, most notably gedit which we use as a fairly strong influence. Remembering the line number seems like a thing we could look at though. Could you please file a bug? cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
