[Geany-Users] How to set external diff viewer in GeanyVC?

Chris Spencer chrisspen at xxxxx
Tue May 9 19:04:11 UTC 2017


Thanks. It works if I do a diff on a single file, but not for a directory.
I guess that's just not implemented yet. However, that's easy enough to
launch from the command line.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 May 2017 at 03:32, Chris Spencer <chrisspen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have the GeanyVC plugin enabled and the "use external diff viewer"
> option
> > checked, and meld installed locally, but when I go to
> VC->directory->diff,
> > it shows me the generic output from diff, not meld.
> >
> > How do I configure GeanyVC to use meld?
>
> If the option is selected GeanyVC should use the first viewer it finds
> in path (from the list  "meld", "kompare", "kdiff3", "diffuse",
> "tkdiff", "WinMergeU").
>
> You havn't specified that OS you are using, but on Linux systems
> starting apps from the desktop menu often does not run any shell, so
> path is not set correctly, so no viewer will be found.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
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