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Is it possible to show more context or the full file?

#1

I’ve been trying to find if it is possible to show the full file, or at least change how many lines are shown around a change. Anyone know if that is possible?

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#2

You can expand the context area around a change by dragging the borders of it up and down to give yourself more context around the diff.

The second slide on sublimemerge.com (labeled “Review Better”) shows this in action.

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#3

Thanks, that helps. I was hoping there there was a way to do it for the whole file. Its kind of a pain, if there are a lot of changes in a file.

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#4

Well it’s a little late but I found that if you mouseover the top or bottom edge as if to drag the edge you can just double click on it and the code will unfold a few lines. Double click repeatedly until the file is fully expanded – it’s easier than click and dragging anyway!

Maybe if a triple click or shift double click could fully expand the file as a shortcut. In any case, I think this feature works great.

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#5

In build 2028 a new button was added that does this in one click, though it’s only visible while your mouse is hovered over the diff area:

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#6

Is there a settings entry so that I don’t have to click that all the time? Either to always have it show full file, or at least make it sticky, so that it remembers what you chose last time?

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#7

Not that I’m aware of, no.

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#8

Hi @talsit,

We appreciate getting feedback like this from our community - feel free to submit an enhancement request here and we can investigate supporting this: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues/new/choose

Cheers,
- Dylan

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#9

If your focus is within the diff container, you can use shift + f11 to toggle that behavior. The relevant key binding being

	{
		"keys": ["shift+f11"],
		"command": "toggle_full_context",
		"context": [ { "key": "control", "operand": "file_diff_hunk_container" } ],
	},
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