Merge editor horizontal scrollbar not working

[Zoltan Peczoli]

If you want to merge two files with long lines in them, the merge editor is useless as
a) Word wrapping is not available in the editor window
b) Horizontal scrollbar does not work

There's no way to edit a conflict if the part you want to edit is at the end of the line.

[Zoltan Peczoli (peczoli)]

The bug is still around in feisty (kdiff3 0.9.90-5ubuntu1)

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I cannot reproduce this in Hardy currently as I was able to scroll a long line that was diff'd between kde4libs in Debian and Kubuntu. Is this still an issue?

[Zoltan Peczoli (peczoli)]

I can confirm that it's fixed already in Gutsy.

[joachimeibl (joachim-eibl)]

Am Sonntag 30 Dezember 2007 09:49:19 schrieb Zoltan Peczoli:
> I can confirm that it's fixed already in Gutsy.

It would only appear with word wrap enabled.
I'll look into it.

Joachim

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

This isn't fixed in Hardy when you have word wrapping enabled. If word wrapping isn't enabled that is fine, but I just tested it and it wasn't working. Another thing I noticed, is after it has the window open and you are looking at the diffs, to get the word wrapping to work, you have to widen the view window (grab the widen handle on the vertical bar that separates the two windows).

[Rjohnson-m (rjohnson-m)]

Version: (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux

When the diff view has word wrapping enabled and you create a diff, the view after the creation doesn't automatically word wrap and doesn't offer any horizontal scroll bars making it impossible to read an entire line if it goes past the right hand side. However, I noticed that if you grab the size handle of the vertical bar between the 2 views and move it, the word wrapping kicks in and works as it should.

Take a look at https://launchpad.net/bugs/72531 for further information if needed. Thank you!

[joachimeibl (joachim-eibl)]

In version 0.9.94 the horizontal scrollbar should work.
(The editor still doesn't support word wrap though.)
Joachim

[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

When I try this in Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), I see a scrollbar also in the resulting merge pane, however it is still hard to handle, because the two diff views above stay word wrapped, whereas the merge-view is not word wrapped, but when you scroll to the right, also the diff-views move and thus you cannot look at view A and B any more if you need to scroll a lot to the right in the merge-view.

Probably either the merge-view should also use word-wrap, or the view A/B should not move along in this case.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

In 0.9.95 both the horizontal scrollbar and word wrapping work.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Actually I take that back, the separate scroll bars aren't there yet.

[Sandeep (sandys-gmail)]

May I request for this feature to be added in - it would be really, really useful

[Richard Bruce Baxter (richardbrucebaxter)]

The kdiff3 horizontal scrollbar is failing on Ubuntu 20.04. When the user moves the horizontal scrollbar the two panes are not refreshed with the new currently out of screen contents (only the existing contents are shown and scrolled through). What should be the new contents is shown as white space. After moving the horizontal scrollbar the user can click inside a pane for the contents to refresh (on both panes), but this workaround is both awkward and temperamental.

[Ines Schnelle (1-ines)]

I'm seeing the same behavior and it's very annoying. I saw this already on 18.04 and hoped it would be gone in 20.04 but it's still there (complete new Ubuntu installation).

[John Carter (john-carter-f)]

Still present in Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS kdiff3 1.8.1 (64 bit)