Re: New feature

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 19 February 2013 22:56, Emmanuel Tanguy <emm tanguy googlemail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great job, Meld is working pretty well and is very useful.
>
> I just would like to share the idea of a feature that I saw in another
> software which I found very useful. I don't know the legality about
> replicating a feature from an existing software but I suppose that you will
> know better (I never participated in developing open source software).
>
> As a functionality the feature is pretty simple: when making a diff between
> two files it is possible to manually resynchronise the two files on a
> particular common part. Right click on the border of one file to activate a
> synchronisation point and click on the boarder of the other file to link
> this synchronisation point to a line. I haven't looked a Meld code and I
> have no idea how easy or difficult this functionality could be to implement.
>
> Does anybody as any thoughts about this kind of feature?

This request has been around for a while now:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362233

Unfortunately, I have no real idea how difficult this would be to
implement in Meld. There are basically two options: try and adjust
FileDiff so that it can handle having two underlying comparisons
(hard), or adjust the diff algorithm to have fixed sync points in its
comparison (unknown difficulty, but probably not that easy).

cheers,
Kai