Re: keyboard accelerators

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 27 September 2010 20:24, Robin Neatherway <neatherway gmail com> wrote:
>> This has always been the plan. I have a local branch that makes the
>> Alt-Up/Down change (it's harder than it should be if you consider a
>> range of sourceview backends). However, I haven't pushed it because I
>> didn't want to simply remove the Ctrl-D/E bindings --- I'm sure many
>> people are used to them by now --- and I don't know Gtk's keybinding
>> mechanisms well enough to add them as additional options for those
>> actions.
>
> Ah, this is good news.

I spent some time on this, and the change is now in HEAD, and is
hopefully compatible with the important sourceview options.

>> > 2. When I am at a change, I think of myself as being at that change, rather
>> > than in a particular file. As a result it is surprising that you can only
>> > Pull and Push from the file that is selected. Would it not be simpler to
>> > push in either direction and just allow Alt-Left and Alt-Right, removing the
>> > Shift-Alt-* menu option completely?
>>
>> I don't think I understand the idea. You can already push and pull in
>> either direction... are you talking about having change actions always
>> be relative to the middle pane or something?
>
> I only use Meld in a 2-diff mode currently, I use kdiff3 for a 3-way
> merge as I found the interface more intuitive than meld 1.3.0. I'll
> give it another go. Anyway, what I mean is that if you run meld in
> 2-diff mode on a pair of files and you are at a particular change, you
> will only be able to push to right and pull from right (if the left
> pane has focus) or push to left and pull from left (if the right pane
> has focus). In this 2-diff mode it seems to make more sense to just be
> able to push to left or push to right at any given time rather than
> remembering which pane has focus and switching the arrow key you use.

Right. You're not the only one who wants this; Peter Tyser made a
similar comment a while back (see
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/2010-March/msg00021.html and
follow-up) and I agree that something along these lines would be nice.

Could you please file a bug so that the request doesn't get lost? I
don't know when I'm likely to get around to looking at this, but if a
patch were to appear...

cheers,
Kai