Re: request for some new features

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 21 December 2011 22:51,  <claudio fischer freenet de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm new here, changing from windows to linux on my developer machine.
>
> Worked with windows comparison tools like CompareIt, now tried meld and am
> very satisfied.
>
> A few things would be nice to have features:
>
> - make the color of the active cursor line in comparison adjustable, it is
> very similar to changed blocks.

I don't know it needs to be adjustable, but at the moment it's just
painted yellow with 50% alpha or something. I agree that we could
certainly do something better than that. Suggestions for how that
could be done in a way that will look good for all change block types
would be awesome.

> - is there a keyboard shortcut for switching left / right file in
> comparison? It is only possible to switch by mouse.

Yes (Ctrl+Esc) but it's only in the most recently released version (1.5.2).

> - set flag for syntax highlighting on as default. This feature was not
> active after installation.

I'm not really willing to change that default. I'm sure there are
plenty of people like yourself who value the syntax highlighting, but
others (including myself) find it distracting to have syntax
highlighting and change highlighting at once... there's just too much
visual noise.

Thanks for the feedback!

cheers,
Kai