Feature: allow renaming files

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Hi :slight_smile:

Sometimes in a Meld folder comparison I find a file or a folder that has been renamed.

Currently Meld afaik does not help deal with this situation: I need to go to the terminal, find one of the two files and rename it to match the file name of the other, then go back to Meld and hit Reload.

Also it’s not possible to compare a file or folder to another one with a different name.

It would be very helpful if there was a feature to deal with renamed files. For instance, allowing to right click a file to rename it, then regenerate the comparison only for the changed file (not for thousands of other files).

What do you think?

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Allowing to rename a file is a very long-standing request. It’s not overly complicated to support the rename, but doing the refresh, etc. is likely to be tricky because of how folder comparisons work.

Also it’s not possible to compare a file or folder to another one with a different name.

You can already do this in Meld. Right-click a file or folder and select “Mark selected file” and then right-click the other file/folder and select “Compare with marked file”.