UI suggestion: Differences Panel

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From: Paul Burchard
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 04:48

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Now that "gdb" has been integrated into Edit, wouldn't it be real nifty to have 
 
"diff" integrated as well?  Sometimes you have to go thru diffs by hand, and Edit doesn't make it fun.  More naive, GUI-bound users don't yet have any intelligent way to compare documents.

The "Differences Panel" would work kind of like the Find Panel, except that it 
would highlight the subsequent differing chunks in each of  
two windows (the 
main document window and the one for another document selected in the 
Differences Panel).  This Panel could have an API like all the others, and 
become a standard part of NeXTSTEP.

Whaddaya say, NeXT?

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