[Lazarus] Source and Editor woes

[Martin]

On 28/09/2011 02:48, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Martin schrieb:
>> The IDE shows a diff, if you select one of the files in the dialog. 
>> So you can check what changed.
>
> That turned out to be not really useful. It contained 5600 lines, 
> IIRC, impossible to find out what's different and what's the correct 
> version. When I saved the editor file under a different name, fc did 
> find only two different lines - with no visible difference 
> (whitespace? line endings?).

Don't know, a bug? or a diff algorithm that doesn't work well with your 
data?
I mostly have pascal files open. and shows the right diff.

>
>> I recall having had that once, for a very short time (quite a while 
>> ago), I do not think it was my config, it might have been some extra 
>> package that was installed, or it got fixed (at least as far as my 
>> tests go)
>
> I.e. you can not reproduce the described behaviour?
>

I played around with it, for some longer. I use "restore pos" in the 
window settings, so it does not happen.

You probably have a fixed pos? In that case it can be reproduced, on 
focus. Please report it on mantis