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Bug 769810 - Visually show when there are changes in a line that require horizontal scrolling to be seen
Visually show when there are changes in a line that require horizontal scroll...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: meld
Classification: Other
Component: filediff
3.16.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: meld-maint
meld-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-08-12 18:53 UTC by Balint Reczey
Modified: 2017-12-13 19:19 UTC
See Also:
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Description Balint Reczey 2016-08-12 18:53:40 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
Comment 1 Kai Willadsen 2016-08-19 22:10:07 UTC
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
Comment 2 Andrey Gursky 2016-12-01 00:14:03 UTC
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
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2017-12-13 19:19:09 UTC
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