[TxMt] REQ: Diff in project drawer context menu

Peter Cowan cowan.pd at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 22:01:23 UTC 2007


On 10/16/07, Thomas Aylott <textmate at subtlegradient.com> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Dean Holdren wrote:
>
> > I'm really missing the ability to diff two files that I've selected in
> > the project drawer from the context menu, coming from an IntelliJ IDEA
> > background (now doing Ruby work).
> > Currently I have to do option-shift-apple-D, and then press 4 (??)
> >
> > I see from an earlier post that you can't add things to the context
> > menu from a Bundle.
> >
> >
> > Is there anything into the works to add diff functionality into the
> > context menu for the project drawer? I can see at least two scenarios
> > that would be big time-savers:
> >
> > Select modified file:
> > 1) diff with saved version
> > Select two files:
> > 2) diff between these files (regular and HTML) options, order same as
> > selection order
>
> I think Allan mentioned this as something that would be possible
> starting with TM2.
> It's irritating that the answers to all our questions is "wait for the
> vaporware to condense" but that's where we are.

Seems a little early to be calling TM2 vaporware, a pejorative term
for software that fails to make it's release date.  As far as I know
the only statement regarding it's release is *after* Leopard, which is
still 10 days away.



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