Re: gitk: synchronize highlighting in file view for 'f'&'b' commands

["Eric Raible" <raible@nextest.com>]

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Eric Raible writes:
> 
>> Previously, 'b', backspace, and delete all did the same thing.
>> This changes 'b' to perform the inverse of 'f'.  And both of
>> them now highlight the filename of the currently diff.
> 
> OK, but...
> 
>> +    set file [regsub -- "-* (.*?) -*" [$ctext get $loc "$loc lineend"] "\\1"]
>> +    set cline [$cflist search -regexp [subst {^$file$}] 0.0]
> 
> This seems to be working out the index of the line we want to
> highlight in the file list, but both the callers of highlightfile can
> supply that info much more easily by incrementing a count as they go
> through $difffilestart, as far as I can tell.
> 
> Paul.
> 

That very well might be, but I:

1) wanted to make the smallest possible change
2) didn't peruse the code closely enough to see how to do that

I unfortunately don't have the time to pursue this just now.
Any chance you could take the idea and fly with it?

Thanks - Eric