Bug#834141: Visually show when there are changes in a line that require horizontal scrolling to be seen

[Bálint Réczey]

Control: tags -1 upstream confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769810

Hi Enrico,

2016-08-12 14:45 GMT+02:00 Enrico Zini <enrico at debian.org>:
...
> Hello,
>
> I recently had to review some code written for large terminals and
> formatted in a way that makes heavy use of vertical alignment.
>
> Looking at differences with meld, I was never sure whether I could see
> all the differences, or whether I was missing something at the right
> side of the screen, so I spent some effort in scrolling right and left.
>
> This made me wish for meld to somehow visually distinguish whether the
> rest of the line that would require right-scrolling to be seen is
> unchanged, or whether it does have changes.

This would be a very useful feature indeed.

Cheers,
Balint