Re: [meld] please bring back support for opening just one file / segfaults in debian etch

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

Thanks Michael!

1) Generally if meld crashes, it's due to a library/python issue. IIRC
meld has never crashed due to a programming bug :)

2) If you change CMD from "echo" to "true" in vc/_null.py, you'll get
the old behaviour. That feature removal was accidental, its checked in
to cvs.

3) Can you add a bug for the keyboard shortcuts? There may even be an
existing one to add to. BTW There is a right click context menu,
though I know thats not as good as being keyboard-only.

Stephen.

> 1.)
> First of all thanks for makeing meld - it's my favourite compare/merge tool.
>
> I've tried the "alternatives" from your homepage, but there is no real
> substitute for it.
>
> Bad thing with depending on one tool is when things break -
> and that's currently the case with the python packages that are shipped
> with debian testing aka. "etch". The latest three binary tarballs
> (1.1.[123]) run fine on sarge, so I'm not sure yet if it is meld's or
> python's problem.

> 2.)
> The other thing that bothers me is that "meld singlefile.txt" no longer
> works. It may seem pointless at the first sight, but opening one file
> if just one file was given makes a lot more sense than showing a more
> or less blank screen. I'm frequently running meld from scripts like [1]
> and the former behavoir was just perfect for that purpose.
>
> 3.)
> Another wishlist feature would be 4 buttons (hotkeys) that would do the
> following things.
>
> 1. copy file "A" over file "B"
> 2. copy file "B" over file "A"
> 3. copy selected area from file "A" over selected area from "B"
> 4. copy selected area from file "B" over selected area from "A"
>
> I'm aware that one can acchieve this "by hand" right now with
>
> select left pane [CTRL]+[A] [CTRL]+[C] select right pane [CTRL]+[V]
>
> so feel free to consider this one as bloat/feature creep, but I've seen
> such buttons in other compare tools and they were handy.