Questions tagged [beyondcompare]
BeyondCompare is a comparison tool for directories and text and some MS-Office files, giving a side by side view of differences between directories or differences in an individual file.
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Running beyond compare 3 from mercurial
I need to run beyond compare using mercurial. I have tried this (in the .hgrc).
[extensions]
hgext.extdiff=
[extdiff]
cmd.vdiff = C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\bcomp.exe
which works; but ...
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How to get Side-by-side layout in Beyond Compare 4's Picture Compare
Beyond Compare 4's Picture Compare has 2 images on top and the composite image below. This suits landscape images, but wastes plenty of space for highly portrait images on 16:9 monitors:
This video ...
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Beyond Compare: how to compare all files shown in "folder compare" in separate tabs?
Usually when I perform "folder compare" in Beyond Compare, I would like to compare content of each file in separate tabs.
If I do right click -> open (or double click) on a specific file, ...
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How to configure BeyondCompare to use Latin1 or ISO/IEC 8859-1 Encoding?
I would like inform BeyondCompare that the encoding of my file is Latin1 or ISO 8859-1. How can I do this?
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How do I diff incoming changesets with Beyond Compare 4 and hg?
I have been using the mercurial and Beyond Compare 4 tools together for about 2 weeks now and feel fairly confident in my usage, however I still seem to have a problem when comparing incoming ...
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in "Beyond Compare" is it possible to highlight the difference between a space and non breaking space (char 32 vs char 160)?
I can't make Beyond compare highlight differences between spaces and non breaking spaces.
The Ampersand is showing in red on the left but the NBSP are not showing in red making it look like the ...
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File comparison - Code and others
We have a requirement to compare two sets of files, for content similarity
Folder A - 100 files
Folder B - 150 files
The comparison will be with each file in Folder A against each file in Folder B. ...
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Beyond Compare tool to handle two files with same content but in different alignment
I have a question regarding the "Beyond Compare" tool.
I have two text files with the same content but the content is in a different alignment in the two files:
Example:
File1 is as below:- ...
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Beyond compare hanging
I have been using beyond compare for several years. It is a pretty nice diff tool.
This morning it started hanging, even when launching it with no arguments:
bcompare
I uninstalled:
yum remove ...
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Bash command not found (trying to integrate Beyond Compare with Mercurial and using it within Cygwin)
I'm trying to integrate beyond compare with mercurial and I've copy & pasted the necessary lines from the Using Beyond Compare with Version Control Systems page for mercurial into my .hgrc file ...