Re: Feature request

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 22 July 2012 23:44, Adriaan <adriaan dehaan gmail com> wrote:
> Hi there, firstly I would like to say I really like meld a lot - it is one of
> the nicest merge tools I have seen.
> I used to use CompareIt on windows and I always compare other merge tools to
> that and Meld is very similar in look and feel.
> One essential feature that Meld really is missing however (or I just don't know
> where to find it) is to manually set sync points in two files. In CompareIt they
> were called anchors. Basically you can set a point in the source and another
> point in the destination and force the tool to do a new comparison consider
> those two points as matching.
> For instance if I have a lot of repetitive blocks in both files, and I
> specifically want some blocks to align I would use this feature.

Hey. Yeah this is sadly a feature that we're missing; see bug 362233
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362233). I think there's
definitely good use cases for being able to add sync points in files,
and it would be great to have this in Meld.

Unfortunately I have a ludicrously long to-do list for Meld, and this
isn't that close to the top... if someone else wants to take up the
challenge, I'll very happily provide whatever help/guidance I can.
There are a couple of different approaches that might work, each with
their own particular issues.

cheers,
Kai