Suggestion/Request: vertical bars in intra-line mode

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hustbaer
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Suggestion/Request: vertical bars in intra-line mode

Post by hustbaer » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:51 am

Hi guys!

In some cases, when you add/delete something in a line, the changes are only visible in one of the 2 panes.
E.g. when you change

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long a[100 ]
to

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long a[100]
you won't see anything in the pane that shows the new version. (Except of course that the background-color of the whole line communicates that something must have been changed, but you don't see what or where)

Now it would be nice if DiffMerge would display a vertical bar (like a caret or pipe-character) in the place where something has been deleted (of course without inserting an actual character - just changing the background color in the first pixel column of the next character - or something like that).

You can see what I mean here:

http://www.araxis.com/merge/topic_three ... nshot.html

(In the screenshot, panes 1 and 3, line 50, the green vertical bar)

Cheery,
Paul

p.S.: I hope Araxis doesn't mind that I use their promotional screenshot here :)

jeffhostetler
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Yes, that would be a nice thing to add.

Post by jeffhostetler » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:13 pm

Yes, that would be a nice thing to add. I'll log a request for it.

Thanks,
jeff

hustbaer
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Post by hustbaer » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:28 pm

Thanks :)

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