Re: Meld roadmap proposals

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 7 July 2010 05:15, Raymond Lillard <rlillard sonic net> wrote:
> As a low level firmware developer (embedded controllers),
> I use meld to merge 'C' and asm text between files.
>
> Often times the diff engine fragments the differences in my
> text so badly that meld becomes useless.  Common segments of
> text split the diff in very odd and non-helpful ways.  I
> recognize algorithmic marking of file differences is a very
> complex effort, probably beyond the scope of the meld project.

It is, but that doesn't mean that we can't do it better!
(see, for example, Piotr's suggestion)

> It would be a nice feature to have a mode where a user can
> manually select a block of text and an insertion point and
> then move the selected left or right as intended.

I think I don't have a clear idea of what this would look like. Is
this different to selecting a block of text, cutting it, and pasting
it in another pane?

Thanks for the feedback.

cheers,
Kai