obs-studio VS meld

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2471

2020-03-24

OBS Studio Screen Recording tool for streaming and more

FWIW, OBS is ~150 MB, not an electron app and actually open source.

https://obsproject.com/

Visual tools: Tools like Meld or VS Code’s diff viewer enhance readability.

It dumps what should be indexed to files under a directory. And users could compare the output with golden files using tools like DirEqual or Meld.

I used a tool called DirEqual for mac. We also recommend Meld for Linux and Windows.

Even simpler:

Step 1: give me your edited `.tex` file.

Step 2: I selectively merge it into mine.

Step 3: There is no step 3.

To selectively merge, I use `meld` https://meldmerge.org/ but there are others.

Benefits of this even simpler approach:

- We continue to use the tools we are used to.

- We and our software don't have to learn a new inline diff format.

- Both files retain valid syntax before and during the selective merge.

- I can choose chunks to accept with a simple mouse click instead of editing a diff chunk.

While we're requesting killer features, https://meldmerge.org/ style diffs, please.

Why do you need ChatGPT? There are hundreds of diffing tools available that do this quite well. Meld is my favorite: https://meldmerge.org/

Thanks, just today I daecided that the current status of Meld (https://meldmerge.org/) was untenable for me.

It used to be a fast program, with a reasonable interface.

For a long time now its interface has been "simplifed" following GNOME 3's User Interface Guidelines, and everything ended up being hidden inside a hamburger menu.

But what definitely made it untenable was not the UI, but its tendency to crash and being really slow under the slightest load.

I was considering contributing to the project, but honestly a better engineered alternative would be welcome.

Thanks for the info (and thanks Kai Willadsen for Meld).

I’m looking for recommendations for the best visual diff and merge tool available on macOS. I’ve done my research as below but have some reservations about the options I found. - Meld seems to get mentioned a lot but the website syas it is not officially supported on OS X. Are the third party binaries trustworthy? - Beyond Compare is also mentioned but the developer website doesn’t inspire much confidence.

https://meldmerge.org/ ?

So, I use Meld for viewing complex diffs (:silent !meld . &). For interactivity, of course, I use the terminal and Vim, such as lazygit and tig, and fugative and gitgutter (or equivalents).