Re: Minor Feature Request

["Stephen Kennedy" <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Jason,

Done!

Retroactively!

Try holding down control or shift when doing the diff.
The shortcut keys should be pretty handy if you anchor your little finger
on control.

Stephen.

On 5/25/07, Jason Champion <xangis yahoo com> wrote:
> I recently migrated fully to Linux (I was running dual-boot for a while), and one
> of the things I have had to find is a replacement for WinMerge (current versions
> don't run under Wine).
>
> I've tried every graphical diff tool I could find, and Meld is the best and comes
> closest to doing everything I need.
>
> There's one thing that Meld could use that would make it the perfect diff tool (for
> me) and would cause it to pull ahead of WinMerge in quality and usefulness:
>
>   - The ability to easily/quickly delete an unwanted block of text (specifically
> the "shows up in green" text.)
>
> This would probably come in the form of adding a "delete block" option to the
> right-click menu, although doing something like adding a minus sign next to the
> "copy to the other side" arrow might work (but could be too easy to click
> accidentally).
>
> One can always manually select and delete this "green" text, but for the sake of
> speed and ease-of-use, having a quick-click option would speed the merge process
> for myself (and I suspect a few others) quite a bit.