Re: Kate - diff - external tools - Kompare
"gregor.mi.sw" <[email protected]>
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Hello Libor,
you can right-click on a non-active tab to compare it with the active tab. There you can choose
between three different diff tools.
Gregor
On 23.12.20 13:19, Libor wrote:
> Hello KATE Team!
>
> I referenced Kate to several IT people and/or programmers in my surrounding looking for a
> cross-platform alternative to Notepad++, but the fact that it lacks a diff tool is a huge stop sign
> for most people straight-away.
>
> The solution might be easy: If you include in "external-tools-plugin" another parameter
> "%{Document:NativeFilePath*2*}" for a /second/ file (if in split mode, then visible file in the next
> panel, in all cases it would be easy to populate the next file from the list of opened files), then
> configuring this plugin to startup Kompare (/usr/bin/kompare
> -c %{Document:NativeFilePath} %{Document:NativeFilePath2}" in Linux) would be easy.
>
> As it stands now (AFAIK), Kompare can be configured only to start "empty" (which would fill the last
> two compared files) and that is quite unimpressive and useless (as starting it via launcher is even
> faster then via Kate menu). You can't even supply two same files, because Kompare would complain
> they're identical and revert to last used files.
>
> Libor