GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 769810
Visually show when there are changes in a line that require horizontal scrolling to be seen
Last modified: 2017-12-13 19:19:09 UTC
Hello, I recently had to review some code written for large terminals and formatted in a way that makes heavy use of vertical alignment. Looking at differences with meld, I was never sure whether I could see all the differences, or whether I was missing something at the right side of the screen, so I spent some effort in scrolling right and left. This made me wish for meld to somehow visually distinguish whether the rest of the line that would require right-scrolling to be seen is unchanged, or whether it does have changes. I'm attaching two example files that can be compared side by side, and unless meld is run on a very wide window, example1.c would have a rather significant change that could currently be easy to miss. Enrico Originally reported to Debian's BTS at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834141
I think this sounds totally reasonable. However, I don't have a clear idea in my head of what such an indication would look like, and while I can sort-of imagine how we'd figure out the visibility in code, it could be messy and expensive. As I said though, I agree that this would be very useful; it's just that it might be tricky
Hi, just to be sure, that Enrico tried this, but had other(?) issues with that: it is possible to enable line wrapping. This is a nice workaround and it would be even more useful, if accessible from the toolbox or in the menu "View" (with a shortcut). Regards, Andrey
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