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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.070823.246@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1992Nov9.044820.12031@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:08:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.044820.12031@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard) writes:
- > Now that "gdb" has been integrated into Edit, wouldn't it be real nifty
- to have
- >
- > "diff" integrated as well? Sometimes you have to go thru diffs by hand,
- and Edit doesn't make it fun. More naive, GUI-bound users don't yet have
- any intelligent way to compare documents.
- >
- > The "Differences Panel" would work kind of like the Find Panel, except
- that it
- > would highlight the subsequent differing chunks in each of
- > two windows (the
- > main document window and the one for another document selected in the
- > Differences Panel). This Panel could have an API like all the others,
- and
- > become a standard part of NeXTSTEP.
- >
- Cool idea. Maybe it should be a MetroTool...
-
- :-)
-
- Gordon
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