Darren J Moffat wrote:
James Falkner wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
It took me a few merges to get used to the tkdiff UI but it was similar
enough to filemerge's UI that it wasn't a great leap. I had to
customize
the colors and behavior to that of filemerge before it all made sense.
Care to share those customisations ?
#
# Of course these don't make tkdiff indistinguishable from filemerge
# but it's better than the defaults IMO
Thanks that did help a bit.
I did notice though that tkdiff doesn't allow you to edit the result
file, that is a big loss. I find sometimes I have to do that - often
just for formating but if I don't do it at the time of merging those
lines I will forget.
It's definitely convenient but I don't find myself doing it that
often so it's not a big loss for me. I don't know why but I never
really trusted filemerge's editing capabilities.. not sure why, but
I just felt that if I didn't edit it in my normal editor, it just
wasn't right. Like, was it converting tabs to spaces, or adding
^M's, that sort of thing.
The one thing I found with meld though was my screen wasn't wide enough
(1680x1050) since it wanted to display the three files side by side, in
contrast to filemerge and tkdiff where you get the two source files side
by side and the result file else where.
One of the main things I like about tkdiff vs. filemerge is the separate
output window which can be moved/resized independent of the other two. But
that's about it as far tkdiff's benefit over filemerge.. (well.. that, and
it's not part of TeamWare :) )
-jhf-
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