I'm using CodeLite to develop C code and find its code completion features and subversion integration useful.
In the past, I've been using Netbeans and Eclipse and they both offer one feature I really miss in CodeLite: an inline diff bar for versionned files.
It consists of a ruler on the side of the editor, identifying differences between the current version of the file and its base version. It uses different colors to point to changed, added or deleted lines. You can quickly see the differences by hovering over the ruler and have the option to restore the set of changes or open a full diff window.
You can see an example of this feature here (http://tinyurl.com/netbeans-inline-diff) for Netbeans.
This is a great way to work with versionned files and once you are used to it it's hard to look back. I am convinced that this would be a great addition to CodeLite!
I don't know the feasibility of this, but given a svn client is already integrated in CodeLite and it has a internal diff viewer, I guess adding this feature would be possible. I have no idea, however, of the time it would take to develop this nor of other impacts it'd have on the rest of the IDE.
In a first time, having only a bar showing /if/ a line has been changed, added or deleted (without displaying the actual change by hovering) would be very usefull.
What do you think, would this be possible to do? Is this somewhere on a "roadmap" or do you any of you plan to work on this?
Regards,
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Arnaud
