Re: Feature request: TMerge show first difference within a line

On 29 January 2010 22:22, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29.01.2010 23:19, Simon Large wrote:
>> On 29 January 2010 19:41, Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On 29.01.2010 12:03, Simon Large wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure this has come up before, but if you have a file with long
>>>> lines then the part of the line which has changed is very often
>>>> outside the view window. It would be good if there were an option to
>>>> scroll the view so that the first difference is actually visible. I'm
>>>> not sure whether this should scroll the main windows or just the diff
>>>> bar. Also, if there are multiple changes within a line then it would
>>>> be useful to have a key to jump to the next inline difference which is
>>>> still off screen, but maybe that is going too far.
>>>>
>>>> I think the 'Next difference' jump should always show column 1 if
>>>> possible, so if the first difference scrolls the view to column 300
>>>> due to a very long line with a change at the end, jump to next
>>>> difference should try to go back to showing column 1 unless the first
>>>> difference in that case prevents it.
>>>
>>> But often, there a whole block of lines that's different. And the "next
>>> diff" button selects that whole block.
>>> What should TMerge do in such a case?
>>>
>>> For example, three very long lines are different. The first one doesn't
>>> show inline diffs because of too many differences. The second one does,
>>> as does the third one.
>>>
>>> now what should the 'next inline diff' button do in this case?
>>
>> What about just the diff bar: that only shows one line at a time?
>
> That bar shows the line the mouse pointer hovers over. Not the selected
> lines.
> How would we change between the mouse hover mode to the 'scroll to the
> inline diff' mode?

How about if we forget the next diff function and just change the diff
bar so that it always tries to show the difference?

Simon

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