UI suggestion: Differences Panel

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3 total messages Started by Paul Burchard Mon, 09 Nov 1992 04:48

#943

Author: 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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Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel

#945

Author: Gordon Van Huizen
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
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Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel

#944

Author: Gordie Freedman
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 08:41

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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,  
> This Panel could have an API like all the others, and 
> become a standard part of NeXTSTEP.
> 
> Whaddaya say, NeXT?
> 
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul Burchard	<burchard@geom.umn.edu>
> ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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I have heard that /usr/sbin/gdiff on the SGI is awesome, somebody  
interested in making a "diff" object should check that out. it uses  
multiple different colors to indicate "in 1st doc not in 2nd", "in 2nd,  
not first", and "only in 1st/2nd". It also has a real nice way to move  
things from one file to another. I agree that a neXT object usable by any  
application for "diffing" would be very nice.
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Gordie Freedman gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com   ->   NextMail encouraged
(Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own and represent no one else.)

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