This RFE is an extraction from a preceding multiple
feature request by Kalyan:
[ 860174 ] Tooltips for directory compare statepane
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4.Option to swap left ,right files.
There is a short discussion too.
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Swapping files is very useful when files are selected by
explorer context menu - such an feature would be very
comfortable, because if I have always the older
file/directory in the left pane it would be much less
probabble I coppied an older file/text over a newer one.
Technically this should be very easy to implement.
The switch option could be added to "View" menu and
could sound something like "Swap panes" or "Swap sides".
(But I understand this menu item could be added to V2.3
since UI of 2.2 is already frosen.)
The shortct could be set to Alt-F6 (in connection with
F6 and Ctrl-F6 that are currently in use). The shortcut
could be added to 2.2 release too.
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Thanks for submitting this as separate request.
For WinMerge codebase its not so easy to implement. Sides
are hard-coded in doc/view - what we initially load to left
side doc is always in left-side view.
What we should have is two file docs/file buffers and two
views and small table or something to map doc/buffer to view.
Currently WinMerge 2.16.22.0 already has this feature so there is nothing difficult to implement (anymore).
We press Alt+V, A, Enter to invoke View > Swap Panes > Swap 1st | 2nd.
Just a shortcut (Ctrl+U or Alt+F6) and button to add.
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I would like this also, because when I drop directories
"altered" and "original" into WinMerge, they are always in
the wrong order, and it is tedious to switch them manually:
Push Open button, highlight entire path in top edit box,
push ctrl-X, click in beginning of lower box, push ctrl-V,
click shift-end to select remainder of old text in lower
box, push ctrl-X, click in upper box, push ctrl-V, and then
hit compare button to finally get the switched results.
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I agree. This is definitely that would be useful.
I've been using WinMerge mostly from the Explorer Shell
extension, and as a result, I have no control of what goes on
the left and right sides.
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There is a patch for this now. But that patch is big one and
changes lots of very important code. So it may take a while
we get it reviewed and applied.
Patch #1265295 proposal patch for 3-way diff (after 2.4 release)
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1265295&group_id=13216&atid=313216
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I just applied a patch to CVS trunk (2.5) for swapping
left/right panes in file compare.