Re: better keyboard merging

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Philip, definitely yes to better keyboard support. I've checked in
a patch to highlight the current line so you
can see where you are in the file. I wanted to highlight the current
diff if the cursor is inside a block, but it's
a little tricky to draw without leaving crud behind or exposing
(redrawing) the entire textview :(. Next thing
to do is probably to have the cursor follow the current diff. It'll
take a while! I don't have much free time
lately :)

Stephen.

2009/2/1 Philip Lowman <philip yhbt com>:
> Hello,
>
> First of all thank you very much for meld.  It's a great tool and I use it
> all the time to view svn differences.  I did have a question about file
> comparisons, however.  I've noticed that there is no support for selecting
> differences, iterating through them, and merging them left or right via the
> keyboard.  Is this something that's planned for sometime in the near future?
>
> What would be very nice is a WinMerge like means by which hitting a keyboard
> shortcut would select the nearest difference to the cursor (either above or
> below), with subsequent key presses selecting the next difference in either
> direction.  When the user has the difference selected it would be
> highlighted a different color and an additional keyboard shortcut could be
> used to copy the differences to the left or right.  WinMerge uses Alt+Up and
> Alt+Down as their default means of iterating through searches and Alt+Left
> and Alt+Right as ways of merging changes either direction.  If you've ever
> used it before it can get quite addicting as a way to quickly merge files
> while viewing all changes with effectively 4 keys on the keyboard (usually
> holding down ALT most of the time).  Obviously for meld a better default
> keymapping would be to keep CTRL+D and CTRL+E around as the default way to
> iterate through the changes.
>
> --
> Philip Lowman
>
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