annotate kdiff3/TODO @ 96:9000a9763f6f

Fixed problem where destination directory would be renamed or deleted
during copy operation. Now if the destination directory exists only the
files inside will be copied.

This file contains some feature-wishes for future KDiff3-versions.

TODO
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- Verknüpfungsziel für Links relativ anzeigen
- KDiff3-Plugin sollte auch in Dolphin arbeiten
- Alignmenttechnik bei Merge von 3 Dateien wählbar
- Horizontales Scrolling reparieren

- Fix drawing in columns A/B/C-directory window
- Qt4-translation files
- Double clicking into empty area causes crash
- Option window is too big (within KDE). (Scrollable?)
- Windows issues: 
  - Diff-Ext-For-KDiff3 included in the installer 
    - language selection from within KDiff3
- Export to html-format file
- Export to diff-format output (and import?)
- Export to diff3-format output (and import?)
- Use diff-output as input
- Variable width fonts.

  - Use regular expression to ignore certain patterns
  - Start without visible compare widgets. (? what did I mean by that)

- Hardlinks -performance support
- Manual alignment during merge should tell user his data will be lost
- Installer for windows for users.
- "List Only Deltas" causes directory merge to delete files
  (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1004853&group_id=58666&atid=488548)
- Diff-view for binary files
- Diff-view for pictures

> > What I find weird is that KDiff3 first creates the 3-way merge view (so
> > the window splits in 4 parts), then closes that and reopens in 2-way
> > diff view. I've never seen the binary package do that. Can this be fixed?


- Only show different lines.

- ftp: Abbruch beim Einlesen von Verzeichnis stoppt nicht vollständig

- Projekt-Verwaltung: Die ganze Config-Datei (=Projektdatei) an einen benutzerdefinierten Ort zu legen. (Keine Angabe->Default)
- Bei Combobox-History alle Elemente von (A/B/C/Out) anzeigen.

- Test on empty floppy drive.

-I suppose this has been asked before, but are there any plans to use
 colors for change/insert/delete (i.e. blue = change, green = insert, red
 = delete)?

> I want to compare two revisions of a file (eventually I wanna do this on
> two directory hierarchies of files) and have an output of how many lines
> of code were added, modified, and deleted for each file and overall.
 
> Also, for "Send To" from Windows, it would be nice if I could pick one
> file via Send To, find the second file (if it's in a different
> directory), and click "Send To" again to compare. I.e., when user does
> "Send To", if one instance is already open and waiting for a second
> file, the first instance is used.

 
- kdiff3 does not preserve the permissions of files it overwrites during a 'save' operation.

- Insbesondere Ausführbarkeit "x" und Schreibschutz "w" sollten erhalten bleiben. 

- Under Windows: Shortcut Ctrl-Shift-2 (for select B everywhere doesn't work.)
-                Paste from Clipboard doesn't work.

- Bug: Comment section isn't recognized as nonwhite difference if several lines are between /* and */ on one side.


- Overview-option to show only remaining conflicts.
- Overview bar for merge-window and for directory-window.

- ??? The gutters (kdiff3 have 2 "gutters") fonts and background-foreground colors sholud be configured other
  than the "general" foreground-background colors. Otherwise they are confused with the main dialog.

- Try to autodetect the line-end-style
- Ignore cvs-keywords like $Revision: x.y$

- Undo function in the merge-editor.
- More viewing options for directory widget.

- And one observation. When select Cyrillic charset - it looks like it was
  not saved. When open this dialog again - Latin charset is selected anyway.
- Add options to specify charset.
- Ask before saving to a file that already exists (optionally).
- Don't overwrite existing .orig-file, when saving the second time.

- File Menu: Close (Ctrl-F4): Close current file (check if saved and forget the data)
- Dirview:
   - Multiselections: Changing Operations or applying ops for all selected items.
   - Optionally show size/date for A/B/C
   - Choose what to see (all or only different items)
   - If only different items are visible: copy the others nevertheless to destdir.
   - Warnung wenn Datum in B oder C älter als A ist.
   - Zielverzeichnis nachträglich änderbar
   - Bei Kopie von Remote nach lokal: Auf jeden Fall das modification Datum setzen.
   - Ctrl-Space doesn't work when a file comparison takes place.
   - Option to allow case-insensitive filename-matching.
- Options to show/suppress annoying messages

- What's this-Help.
- Tip of the day.

More Statistics before the merge begins:
- How many files are there?
- How many files are equal/different?
- How many files would be copies/merged/ignored?

- Allow to view and merge CVS-conflict files (and diff3-output) and allow to save output
  with conflicts in diff3 output-format.
  
- Provide configure-rules for systems without KDE. (I need help here.)

- Allow different comment-styles (e.g. via a regexp for comments)

- Possibility to jump to next difference in the same line (for very long lines).

- Allow analysis of unified directory-diff/patch-file.

- LineEdit for Save-Filename