Re: Feature Suggestions

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 9 March 2017 at 00:15, John Ulvr <John Ulvr solace com> wrote:
> You should be able to cut/paste/edit the path of the files you are
> comparing.   My problem is that I usually compare files from different
> branches of code, where only the top directory name changes.   So, for
> example, I might want to compare
> //home/john/workspace1/product1/release43/drivers/char/foo/foo.c with
> //home/john/workspace2/product1/release43/drivers/char/foo/foo.c.   The
> problem is that currently to do that, I have to select my first file, and
> then go all the way back to my root, and renavigate the entire tree to get
> my second file.   This is not overly convenient.   If I could edit the path
> and just change the one directory, it would be much faster.

This has been a common feature request, and basically we haven't done
this because we're using upstream GTK+ widgets, and I have bad
experiences trying to maintain such a custom widget in the past. That
doesn't necessarily mean that we'll keep using the exact UI we have.

Also, you don't actually have to do what you describe. Hitting Ctrl+L
in the normal file chooser will get you a path entry where you can
copy/paste/etc.

> Allow an auto-reload option.   The file merge window can detect if a file
> has changed, and if so it asks if you want to reload or hide.   It would be
> nice to have a third button, auto-reload, which would mean that every time
> it detects that the file has changed, it automatically reloads without
> prompting.   Having it remember the line number the cursor was on, after
> reload would also be nice for this feature.   (again, for justification: I
> do my editing in source insight.   I often want to see what’s changed.
> However, if I modify a file outside of source insight, source insight looses
> all it’s bookmarks, etc.   So I often have Source Insight open on one
> screen, and Meld on the other, but I make all the changes in SI…).

I can see why you'd want this, but I feel like our current behaviour
is more consistent with existing editors, most notably gedit which we
use as a fairly strong influence.

Remembering the line number seems like a thing we could look at
though. Could you please file a bug?

cheers,
Kai