[platform-compare-dev] Compare Features...

[Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, seems like this is a pretty quiet mailing list... if there's
anybody actually listening, I have a few possible compare features that
I'd like to talk about (I don't know the codebase nearly well enough to
consider trying to implement these myself)...

1. Scroll bars.  Right now, if you set the scrolling of the compare view
   to be synchronized, then you get a really nice link between the
   deltas in the right and left panes.  If you turn off synchronized
   scrolling, that goes away.  Is it possible to set it up so that when
   synchronized scrolling is turned off, the scrollbar for the left-hand
   pane is on the left, and that link indication remains?  It would make
   the compare *much* more flexible.

2. Synchronized scrolling option.  Instead of making it a preference on
   the preferences page, why not make it a toggle on the compare view?
   It could be in the line that has the "copy whole file right/left",
   "copy right/left" and "next/previous change" buttons.

3. Compare colour coding.  This might come at the cost of the source
   colour-coding, but if it's an option than that should be ok.  The
   colour coding would work so that, in addition to the current "these
   two lines are different", the changed text itself would be
   highlighted and the (customizable) colour used to highlight would
   indicate addition/deletion/modification...  (For an excellent example
   of this, look at Araxis Merge...  http://www.araxis.com )

   Thanks for your time. :-)
      Marco

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