[Kdiff3-user] Questions/Requests

[Tom {T. O. <to...@to...>]

Various things I wish I knew how to do (or features I miss):

- Hiding - is there a way to manually exlude files or directories?
  I mean, from the directory browser, not by configure-anti-pattern?
  It is common for me to want to say "this and this and this don't
  matter just ignore them."  This could just be "right click on a
  file or directory, context menu gives option to hide, which then
  adds anti-pattern on the fly..."

- Session saving - especially important if there is a way to hide.
  I'd like to be in the middle of a merging session with certain
  directories hidden and visible "done" marks - and save the session
  for later, to be reloaded in a few days.

- Directory view output / report - Is there a way to capture the
  diretory difference list, any kind of "output" mode?

- Stats per file, i.e., put the number of differences next to each
  file name in the directory pane - it would be useful to see that
  file A has 3 differences for 30 lines, file B has 19 differences
  for 2,342 lines...

- Keybindings - are they customizable?  F6 and CTRL-1 are _NOT_ the
  ones I would pick, by the way.  And I really _don't_ want "a" or
  "b" to jump to the file starting with that name...

- Direct editing - Is there a way to edit without merging?  Often,
  I'll double-click a file, and then I wish I could edit either or
  both sides manually... but those panes are read only...

- Context-menus - I would love it if right-click menus were supported.

- Undo - well - it would be nice to save history and allow undo...

- Alerts - is it possible to configure whether some pop-ups pop-up?

- Shelling out - I'd like to be able to open gvim or filter through
  something else or shell into an IDE or whatever ... some files are
  just not that usable in the built-in editor.

- Line wrapping - 500 character lines are a problem.  Could there be
  an option for it wrap the left and right panes in sync?

-Thanks,,, -Tom

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