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. I find that's the only reason I pop back to BBEdit now, the ability to step through the differences line by line and copy the changes between the files is very useful.
Regards
Chris Jenkins
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I thought about trying to make a TextMate plugin to integrate with Apple's FileMerge (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/FileMerge) but TextMate seems to only be able to give me the name of the current file, not any other open file, and anyway it would only work on saved files, not files that had changes made, and furthermore you can't really edit files in FileMerge, not that you'd want to since the idea is to edit in TextMate. So, in summary, this would indeed be nice to have in TextMate.
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On 15. Dez 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. I find that's the only reason I pop back to BBEdit now, the ability to step through the differences line by line and copy the changes between the files is very useful.
Regards
Chris Jenkins
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.
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