GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 538736
"Down" does not go to the next difference
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I press "Down" or Ctrl+D, when comparing two files, meld does not move to the next difference, but to the last one. And the "Up" button does not do anything. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a file comparison (with more than one difference between the files) 2. Press Ctrl+D or click Down Actual results: It goes to the last difference. Expected results: It should go to the next difference. Does this happen every time? It seems so Other information: I'm using Fedora 9 with KDE 4.
I've seen rarely with some combination of files and window sizes, but not been able to track it down.
I believe this is the same problem as reported here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505087 It didn't exist in version 1.1.4, but I'm seeing it in version 1.1.5.1. I rely extensively on Meld as my favourite difference viewer / manual merger, so I need to trust it to show me all of the differences when I scroll up and down via these arrows. This is a subtle bug that would trick me otherwise, so I've downgraded back to version 1.1.4 until it is fixed.
Do you get the same results with the UP and DOWN icons on the top bar or it is a different behavior? On my computer it works the same with both icons and CTRL+D or CTRL+E. I think the problem might be that UP and DOWN (go to prev/next difference) only goes where there are differences (blue background) and not isolated blocks (green background). IMHO the jump (to next / prev difference) feature should jump to green zones too, because they are also very important in a comparison.
This really is a duplicate of Bug #505087
Agreed, duplicate of bug 505087. Thanks for the bug report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 505087 ***