On Dec 15, 2004, at 10:54, Chris Jenkins wrote:
I imagine that this might have been covered before, so forgive me if so, but is there any plans to build a file differencing tool into TextMate? I'm talking about something akin to the interface that BBEdit provides, or Xcode for that matter.
Currently I have no plans of writing such a thing. I think such a tool could just as easily be written by a third party, and I prefer to focus my development on the things that cannot.
Xcode uses an external tool (FileMerge) which can be found in /Developer/Applications/Utilities -- you may be able to make this work with TextMate.
This said, since people obviously do expect a file merge tool to come with their editor, I wouldn't mind ease the interoperation with another tool, and I can also look into writing a GUI wrapper for the diff command line tool, which unlike FileMerge should be standard on all installs.
But I think this is more a 1.2 priority than 1.1.