[MonoDevelop] Possible enhancment for diff view

[Alan McGovern]

Hey,

I didn't realise there were buttons :) I'll give them a shot now!

Thanks,
Alan.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:21 PM, IBBoard <ibboard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a little torn on the scrolling behaviour. It can be jumpy at times
> when you've got big gaps between changes, but Eclipse does it and I have
> found it useful. As the OP said, it does help you focus on the important
> parts.
>
> The main problem is normally over how much to scroll. If you've got lots
> of block deletes/additions (especially ones that are larger than your
> window) then scrolling in the panel that has the little blocks means you
> don't see all of the changes and scrolling in the panel that has the big
> blocks can seem like you're scrolling a lot for little change.
>
> If we've got buttons then it is probably less confusing for now to just
> use them for change jumping, but I'll have to check the buttons out a
> bit more.
>
>
> On 10/07/10 07:30, Mike Krüger wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > That behavior is a bit 'jumpy' ... I don't think that it's good. There
> > are buttons at the right bottom corner that does exactly this - did you
> > try these ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Mike
> >> The diff view is pretty cool so far. It's been *very* useful to me
> >> when reviewing other peoples diffs and also reviewing my own before
> >> committing them. It makes it trivial to undo accidental whitespace
> >> changes.
> >>
> >> One feature I was thinking would be cool would be if scolling the diff
> >> view jumped between segments, alternatively each scroll in the diff
> >> view would move you down to the next changed line. This way you could
> >> easily jump to the important parts of the file without having to think
> >> about it and place your mouse in just the right place. The way I view
> >> things is that scrolling in either the left pane or right pane will
> >> scroll as normal, but if you scroll in the bar in the middle you
> >> should jump to the next changed segment/line.
> >>
> >> What do people think of this? Can you think of a better way to
> >> accomplish this?
> >>
> >> Alan.
> >>
> >>
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