Re: New feature

[Piotr Piastucki <leech miranda gmail com>]

On 02/20/2013 09:14 PM, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> This request has been around for a while now:
>
>     https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362233
>
> Unfortunately, I have no real idea how difficult this would be to
> implement in Meld. There are basically two options: try and adjust
> FileDiff so that it can handle having two underlying comparisons
> (hard), or adjust the diff algorithm to have fixed sync points in its
> comparison (unknown difficulty, but probably not that easy).
>
> cheers,
> Kai

Interesting idea.
Having fixed sync points in the diff algorithm does not seem to be that
hard to implement.
It would probably require a new matcher on top of the existing one that
would split the input
according to sync points, feed the underlying matcher with partial data
and combine the results.
Unless I missed something...

Cheers,
Piotr