Re: Suggestion: Enable editing for both views when TMerge is invoked for diffing two files

On 26.01.2010 08:00, Dmitry wrote:
> Stefan wrote:
>> Just switch the views with the button in the toolbar.
> As a developer I'm often tempted to give answers like this myself.
> Something like "If I press Enter twice the app crashes big time and I
> lose all unsaved data." - "Won't fix - just don't press Enter twice".

Now that's a very bad analogy. This is not a bug in TMerge but a design
decision. Hinting that I would rather leave a crashing bug open than
fixing it really hurts.

> Seriously, in the scenario when TMerge is spawned to diff two files
> on disk those files are completely equivalent - it just happens that
> one is in the right pane and another is in the left, so the whole
> idea of switching views because I find that the file I'd like to edit
> is in the "wrong" pane is ridiculous.

As I said, this is a design decision. I've asked around in my office
before I implemented this. And most of my coworkers agreed that allowing
to edit another file than the target one would be bad and confusing.

Stefan

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