Re: Keyboard shortcuts, navigating through changes

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 03:14, <e2qb2a44f prolan-power hu> wrote:
> When comparing 2 directories, I find a bit tiresome to press the "Ctrl-W, [Alt-]Down, and Enter" key 
> sequence
> each time when (after Alt-Down keystrokes) I am finished with a file and want to advance to the next 
> differing file.
>
> Isn't there any faster way?

If you're starting from the command line, you can use `--auto-compare`
flag to automatically open multiple files, or you can just open
multiple files by selecting them in the folder comparison. If you do
this for many files it *will* be slow of course.

> Any acceleration? For example, at the last Alt-Down, which is "unsuccessful" (no
> more difference), one may get a prompt that "Let's continue with the next file? [OK] [Cancel]".

While I understand why you want that, I think that would be very
unexpected behaviour for most users. Personally, I routinely hit the
bottom of a set of changes when I have no intention of closing the
file yet.

> Alternative: a dedicated Alt-Shift-Down (or even better) shortcut, to do this advancing.

The problem with adding shortcuts for specialised use cases like this
is that they're then not available for more general use cases. For
example, I was just considering whether I could use Alt+Shift+Up/Down
for previous and next conflict, which are much more generally
applicable actions.

cheers,
Kai