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Re: TortoiseMerge usability suggestions

From: Joseph Galbraith <galb_at_vandyke.com>
Date: 2006-08-30 19:04:24 CEST

Stefan Küng wrote:
> Lübbe Onken wrote:
>
>> I have some suggestions concerning the keyboard navigation and
>> usability in
>> TortoiseMerge. I'm not so happy that the Numpad is used (there must have
>> been reasons), so now I post what I consider an improvement.
>>
>> 1) Use the following keys for navigation:
>> Next Diff: F7
>> Prev Diff: Shift+F7
>
> These already work.
>
>> Next Conflict: F8
>> Prev Conflict: Shift+F8
>
> Added the accelerators for those in revision 7265.
>
>> 2) Use the following keys for editing:
>> Use Text Block from "Theirs": (Ctrl+)F9
>> Use Text Block from "Mine": (Ctrl+)F10
>> Use Text Block from "Theirs" before "Mine": (Ctrl+)Shift+F9
>> Use Text Block from "Mine" before "Theirs": (Ctrl+)Shift+F10
>>
>> The Ctrl Key is not really necessary, but I thought an editing action
>> should
>> have at least two keys to prevent accidents.
>
> What would that be useful for? You still need to select the lines in
> question with the mouse, so a right-click is the way to go anyway.
> Or do I miss something here?

When you use the accelerators to navigate (next diff, previous
diff) it highlights the 'current' change, which appears to be
a selection.

So F7, F7, F7, CTRL+F9, F7, F7 reverts one of the changes
from the file :-)

Of course implementation may not be that simple :-)

Thanks,

Joseph

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Received on Wed Aug 30 19:05:59 2006

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