Re: comparison view at bottom of screen

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 27 April 2012 05:09, Mark Mikofski <Mark Mikofski sunpowercorp com> wrote:
>
> Meld is fantastic just the way it is. But one thing I like about TortoiseMerge is the
> comparison view at the bottom of the screen (full width) that compares the left and
> right lines one on top of the other, so that differences pop out more easily.

There's a request for this in bug 477521.

While I could be convinced otherwise, I personally don't like the
bottom-pane style.

One possibility might be to present something like this in a tooltip
that could be
keyboard / hotspot / hover activated. GtkTooltip is certainly capable
of handling the
display component. Currently in Meld, we don't expose any way of
figuring out what
the best line-for-line match is when doing inline highlighting, so
adding that logic
would be challenging.

cheers,
Kai