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Meld is a visual diff and merge tool, targeted at developers.

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How to install Meld with Homebrew on Mac OSX?

To install meld on Mac OSX I try to run: brew install meld but I got the following error: Error: No available formula for meld What is the right way to install meld?
Misha Moroshko
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How to change the syntax highlighting style in Meld

Meld 1.5.1 uses gtksourceview (via pygtksourceview) for its syntax-highlighting, however I'm unable to figure out how to configure it to use a specific style (color scheme/theme) from the ones available to gtksourceview. Maybe the solution is…
chris
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How do I turn on line numbering in Meld diff viewer?

I can't find the option to enable line numbering. It'd be very helpful!
trusktr
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“Meld” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. MacOS Montery

I love Meld, and was able to use that in MacOs up to 12.x. I installed that using homebrew, as described here among other places: How to install Meld with Homebrew on Mac OSX?. But since upgrading to Monterey, it has stopped working. Homebrew…
Nestor Milyaev
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Installing meld: Cannot import: pygtk

I installed meld in Mac OSX with Homebrew: brew install meld Then, when I run meld . it fails with the following error: Cannot import: pygtk No module named pygtk However, pygtk is already installed: brew install pygtk Error: pygtk-2.24.0…
alf
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Right click files to meld

I have installed meld in Ubuntu 10.10. Is there any way I can get something like "Select left to compare" and "Compare with" context menu for files that is there in Beyond Compare.
Nemo
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Use Meld instead of Kompare in KdeSVN

i tried using Meld as external diff in KdeSVN as meld -on - (settings>configure kdesvn>diff&merge) but Meld complains that the usage is wrong: meld: error: no such option: -o Finished Usage: meld Start with an empty…
sterz
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How to stage git commits using meld (like git add -p)?

git add -p allows to stage selected parts of working tree changes to the index so that an uncommitted set of changes can be split into multiple commits. Instead of git add -p, I would like to use meld or another graphical diff tool available on…
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How can I integrate Meld with the Windows shell?

I moved from using Linux Mint to Windows 10. I have installed Meld for windows. How do I get 'meld' to appear when right-clicking after I have selected two files in Windows Explorer?
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Directory comparison in Meld but ignoring changes that only involve file timestamp?

I'm using Meld to compare two directories of source code on Ubuntu. However, because all of the files in one of the directories have been 'touched' so that all of their timestamps were updated, Meld is showing them as different, even though the…
creamcheese
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Meld syntax highlighting feature is disabled

I have installed Meld 1.8.3, which runs fine except that syntax highlight and some other features are disabled. I haven't been able to find out why these options are disabled and how I can enable them.
Ari
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git difftool doesn't open meld

I have the below in my .gitconfig. For some reason git difftool doesn't open up meld. It only works with meld. I'm using Ubuntu. How can I fix it so that meld is opened? [diff] tool = meld [difftool] prompt = false [difftool "meld"] …
user994165
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meld on OS X 10.7 doesn't work?

I'm installing meld on Mac OS 10.7 using port. It has downloaded all dependencies and told that everything is ok: Staging meld into destroot Installing meld @1.5.3_0 Activating meld @1.5.3_0 Cleaning meld Updating database of binaries:…
klm123
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Meld: Change color scheme

I'm using win10 and dark mode. A conflict is highlighted in blue, and the details in it are highlighted in a lighter blue. I'd like to change all these colors. I tried this meld.css, but it changed nothing. I think I found it. First, the dir…
Zohar
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Why does meld take such a long time to start on a remote machine?

I use a machine remotely on which several people have remote access. One of them messed around with the Python versions, installed a newer version maybe, not exactly sure. Assume I have no access to him. Now, the main pythonic thing I'm using on…
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