RE: Re: TortoiseMerge Searches

Hi,

Thanks for your reply Stefan. Please see my replies below.

I wrote:
>> 7. Many of the above changes would be assisted if partial lines could
be
>> selected (with the mouse or keyboard), just like in Blame. This may
be
>> hard as I suspect some sort of line-oriented, not character-oriented
>> control is being used to display the text.
>>
>> This would allow searches and clipboard commands to work just like in
a
>> text editor - behaviour that people are already very familiar with.

Stefan wrote:
> I don't think we can do that easily.

As I suspected. :(

> And the benefits are not that big to justify such a big effort.

That depends on your perception of the benefits. Also could we use some
of the code from Blame?

As I said I would be happy to write some code. (But it would have been
nice if it had been designed like this from the start. In fact Blame
and TortoiseMerge have a lot in common and could have shared some code
in this area.)

>> 8. The one thing I would find incredibly useful would be to be able
to
>> search for the next occurrence of selected text (as in Ctrl+F3 in
Visual
>> Studio). That is, use the mouse to select some text and press
Ctrl+F3
>> to find the next occurrence of it.
>
> Ahem: not Ctrl-F3 but only F3 does the trick. ...

I know about F3, but it requires that at some point you type in the
search text. Ctrl+F3 only requires you to select the text. It is
amazing how often that is all you want and how useful I find this. It
also saves blunders due to typos.

Ctrl+F3 is not only supported by VS but several other editors (eg
NoteTabPro and HexEdit both of which I use a lot have had it for at
least 4 years).

As you say it is only useful if selection is changed to be character,
not line, oriented (see 7 above).

>> ...printing and also switching between vertical/horizontal split.

> To print, just use a regular text editor.

I guess people use it to print out the diffs or print the 2 files side
by side. I thought it worth mentioning but I never use it, so forget
it.

>> And what would a horizontal split be useful for?
>> You can't see the differences that way.

You are right you can't line up the differences, but some people here
prefer it perhaps because they have narrow monitors and long lines. I
thought it would be trivial to implement but I never use it so forget
it.

>> Finally, is there any reason the source code requires VS2005? ...

> ..Also, CRT80 has some nice new secure functions which aren't
available in earlier versions...

I saw use of some functions that seem to protect against buffer
overruns.
They didn't look useful to me but I'll take your word for it.

I should have said before that I believe TSVN is fantastic.
TortoiseMerge is arguably the best of this type of tool, but I want it
to be *unarguably* the best.

Thanks again,
Andrew.

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Received on Thu Aug 10 02:54:00 2006