[Feature request] Diff/merge mode

[antelle]

Hi, CotEditor is very fast and sleek! Since it has a native editing control with syntax highlighting and split view, would it be possible to add diff/merge mode? This way it could be used as a fast merge tool for macOS.

[1024jp]

Hi, thank you for the request.

CotEditor uses a subsystem of Cocoa framework that called document-based. And a document-based application is designed to have a single window for each file. Therefore, unfortunately, it is quite hard and time-consuming to implement a feature opening multiple files in a single window. Ok, it's not "impossible", but because of that, I'll not put it on my list.

[stefan1983]

Any update here soon? Still hugely missing feature ;)

[1024jp]

Unfortunately, the maintainer is currently too busy to implement such a large new feature for a spare-time project 😢. I do not disagree with this feature, but just because of the time issue.

[DennisFury]

Would be great to bump this feature request