On 22 July 2012 23:44, Adriaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, firstly I would like to say I really like meld a lot - it is one of > the nicest merge tools I have seen. > I used to use CompareIt on windows and I always compare other merge tools to > that and Meld is very similar in look and feel. > One essential feature that Meld really is missing however (or I just don't > know > where to find it) is to manually set sync points in two files. In CompareIt > they > were called anchors. Basically you can set a point in the source and another > point in the destination and force the tool to do a new comparison consider > those two points as matching. > For instance if I have a lot of repetitive blocks in both files, and I > specifically want some blocks to align I would use this feature.
Hey. Yeah this is sadly a feature that we're missing; see bug 362233 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362233). I think there's definitely good use cases for being able to add sync points in files, and it would be great to have this in Meld. Unfortunately I have a ludicrously long to-do list for Meld, and this isn't that close to the top... if someone else wants to take up the challenge, I'll very happily provide whatever help/guidance I can. There are a couple of different approaches that might work, each with their own particular issues. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
