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Article #945Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel
From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 07:08
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 07:08
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In article <1992Nov9.044820.12031@news2.cis.umn.edu> burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard) writes: > 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. > Cool idea. Maybe it should be a MetroTool... :-) Gordon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] ----------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!hd0258!gvh From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel Message-ID: <1992Nov9.070823.246@metrosoft.com> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Organization: Metrosoft References: <1992Nov9.044820.12031@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:08:23 GMT Lines: 28