NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/software/2578

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From: [e-mail] (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:45:39 GMT
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Gordie Freedman writes
> it uses multiple different colors to indicate "in 1st doc not in
> 2nd", "in 2nd,  not first", and "only in 1st/2nd".

This idea combined with a drag and drop text editing addition to the Text
object would be really handy and an easy way to make the documents being
'diffed' become the same (or closer to the same).  Something where you can
select some text, or have something select some for you, and then release the
mouse button, then drag from the selected text to a spot somewhere else in the
document or on top of some already selected data elsewhere in the same or
another app thereby causing the dragged data to replace (drag released on
selected material) or be inserted (drag released on unselected data) where you
release the mouse button.

The inability of the Text object to do discontinuous text selection might
hamper any diff panel (unless you wouldn't mind doing each different segment
one at a time).

Lastly, the only bad idea I can forsee with different colors standing for
different types of differences is that easily seeable B&W versions would have
to be made for us monochrome users.
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