In-place editing of the files (merge feature)

[Kevin Kofler]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> I would like to ask if there are any plans to add in-place editing of
> the compared files. Meld[1] allows this and it is a very great feature
> in my opinion, because it makes merging two files much much more effective.

Sorry, but there are currently no such plans. You can file this as an RFE 
("wishlist" type bug) in bugs.kde.org so it won't be lost, but please don't 
expect it to be handled soon, unless you propose a patch implementing it. ;-) 
There are already way too many RFEs (and other assorted bugs, mostly minor 
glitches nobody cared about enough to fix them) for Kompare.

The technical reason this isn't currently implemented is that the diff viewer 
is designed only for viewing, it is not a text editor component, just a plain 
K3ListView. It would probably be fairly easy to enable the "renaming" 
functionality in K3ListView, allowing to edit the files line by line (but 
actually writing the changes to the files properly is probably less trivial), 
but I don't think this is really what the user expects, the days of line 
editors are long past. ;-)

        Kevin Kofler