Re: [Kdiff3-user] Questions/Requests

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi Tom,

Sorry for the very delayed response.

"Stats per file" are there to a certain extent when activating "Full Analysis" 
in the Directory settings.

Keybindings are only adjustable in the KDE version. There it was provided by 
the system. For other platforms more work is needed.

Session saving, directory view output/report are often asked for. Because the 
directory view is quite independant of the rest, this might be a job for a 
volunteer. "Hiding" also affects only this part.

Direct editing, Undo, line wrapping: I have these on my list too. These and 
some other wishes are related and I've started work on a improved 
viewer/editor architecture but am not able to do much lately.

Context menus/Configurable Alerts/Shelling out: Probably not very difficult. 
(Any volunteers?)

I foresee that I will have much less time for development in the future.
So if anyone wants to help, you might want to join the team.

Cheers,
Joachim



> 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