[Geany] file changed notifications

[Ben West]

I actually mean making the tool more general, and making more use of it, not
neccesarily saying anything baout version control, bear with me while I
digress:

I haven't used the vcdiff tool much: typically, I use meld for that, but
there's no reason I couldn't use vcdiff -- My point was, I dislike file
change notifications in general, and that rather than forcing me to update
"right now!" the ability to add changes that were made to the file in the
filesystem later might be useful: say I made the same change twice using vim
and geany in oder to fix the same problem, got distracted, yada yada...


*Maybe more to the point:*
 I'm sure the vcdiff tool is great and all, but maybe dissasembling the diff
tool from the vc tool and making it possible to simply diff a file and it's
file-system copy might be a useful feature? say, add a "view differnces
button". Unless I'm mistaken about how plugins work, it wouldn't *have* to
hard-depend, but if it was available, the file-change notification could
defer to the diff tool for merge, replace, etc.  You could probably USE meld
to do this. Furthermore, if (it's a big if) the file in question is being
edited via GIO on a remove machine and someone else edits the file you're
editing (granted, this shouldn't happen, but say it's the apache config) you
maybe don't want to clobber your edits with their edits?  If this is too
hard, pointless, undesirable, consider me no more than a voice shouting
randomly and carry-on as though I said nothing -- this change isn't
something I'm invested in, I'm just trying to contribute constructively to
the discussion.


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Benjamin West



On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:57:10 +0100
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:48:50 +0100, Frank Lanitz
> > <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:16:37 -0700
> > >Ben West <mrgenixus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> technically, if vcdiff is already installed, couldn't it be
> > >> leveraged to manage any changes made since the file in  the
> > >> filesystem changed?  just a thought.
> > >
> > >I'm afraid I hardly dislike this idea. VCdiff was indented to work
> > >together with VC-systems like subversion or git. Implementing a
> > >feature like supporting a diff between the loaded version of a file
> > >and the version remote (either on 127.0.0.1 or wherever) will need a
> > >big bunch
> >
> > Uhh, I didn't even think of this way. I assumed Ben suggested this for
> > files which are already under any version control system.
> > Anyway, the requested feature would then more or less hard depend on
> > the vcdiff/geanyvc plugin which is not an option.
>
> Hey Ben, put some light into it here ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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