chnageable file and dir path display
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#322 chnageable file and dir path display
With dir paths growing exponentially with the size of
hard disks it almost always ends up being a problem
discerning what's in the left and right window and any
fixed cut-off is bound to be wrong in some situation.
A rather simple pattern setting like just listing slashes
would do just fine, say /2/5/6/ would mean "I'd like to
see 2nd, 5rh and 6th segment from the path, or with
the minus sign: -/2/5/6/ it would mean 2nd last, 5th
last, 6th last.
You could of course go graphic-fancy on this but I don't
see the real need to that level immediately.
Alternatively, turning path titles into scrollable fields
would allow used to just drag it a bit left or right to see
the part he needs, and as long as WinMerge would keep
remembering the "last position" it would also be OK. If
you take that route the you might allow the right-click
selection on the part of the path to mean "highlight this
section".
Zarko
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Latest beta release (2.1.6.0) and experimental releases show
paths in compacted form (with ellipsis). Also full path is
shown in tooltip.
However current implementation is not optimal. Sometimes I'd
really need to see two or three deepest subdirs but don't
care about drive letter or top-level dirs (comparing source
trees in same directory tree). And sometimes I don't care
about deepest directories, but drive letter and top-level
directory are important (comparing directories in different
drives or local/network copy etc).
Allowing to show full path as scrollable sounds interesting.
Or letting user to select if we show begin or end of paths.
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I just closed RFE '#906171 Right-justify long path/file
names above output window.' as dublicate of this.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=906171&group_id=13216&atid=363216
Like I commented already there maybe we should be smarter
when showing paths and hide common parts. If we have paths:
c:\workfiles\coding\projects\opensource\sourceforge\winmerge\ and
d:\work\coding\projects\opensource\winmerge_dev\
we show:
c:\workfiles\...\sourceforge\winmerge\ and
d:\work\...\winmerge_dev\