On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 12:23, NGAndMainAccess MELLOTT <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am not familiar what the usual updating cycle for the mailing list > downloads is. The last one I noted is in May. I hope everyone is healthy.
I'm not certain what you mean by "mailing list downloads", but the list archives are at https://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/ and should always be current. > I use Meld quite often and consider it of great value. One feature that > might be nice though, would be to have the option to have it display an > inverted highlighted (perhaps deep red background) filler for missing > characters. One might put a matching highlighted statement of its size (and > purpose) when it is selected for added clarity on the status line at the > bottom of the main dialog window. I'm not sure I totally understand what you're asking for here. Do you mean that in the within-change highlighting, we would show characters that existed on one side but not the other with a different background colour? If so, that's an interesting idea but I'd be worried that it would be very visually confusing. Also, there's the problem of deciding whether a character is modified vs. missing, which would then become another layer. > The only other thing [and it is likely a big one] that may be helpful where > files are to be (highly) equal and differences need to be fixed; would be to > use the full width of the display and use ~boxed~ areas having a light off > shade differing backgrounds for the lines that differ in the files. The > memory of the differing cursor positions in each box is nice. So an inline diff style rather than side-by-side? I'm not certain how much work that would be, but probably quite a lot. However, I'm not sure how much benefit Meld would be over a much simpler editor with an inline-diff format. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
