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EMF Compare/Specifications/EditingTextualAttribute
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Evolution Specification: Allow the editing of textual attribute
Current status is DRAFT
Preamble
Often, when comparing textual attribute, neither the local nor the remote value is the one the user wants to keep. We will relax the read-only constraint on textual compare viewer. As soon as the left or the right side is edited, the associated difference will be marked as rejected.
- Bug 398083 - Allow the edition textual attribute
Detailed Specification
The working feature is presented here: video
Found bugs
- Bug 398311 - ChangeRecoder with EditingDomain
- Bug 398405 - The save action does not work in a content merge viewer different from TableContentMergeViewer
- Bug 398503 - No refresh of the Structure Merge Viewer after setting a textual value
Implementation choices and tradeoffs
PENDING: specify how and why the undo/redo work like it is working.