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Visual Comparer

Visual Comparer enables you to compare text files side by side, and view the differences highlighted in color. The program not only highlights the line that contains the difference, but also the individual change, down to a single character. You can the selectively transfer changes from the left to the right or vice versa.

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Features:

full-functional text editor;
comparing options:
- ignore case sensitive;
- ignore all spaces;
- ignore leading spaces;
- ignore changes in spaces amount;
- ignore differences in EOLs;
char-by-char comparison;
adjusting and rearranging of similar lines;

high speed of loading large files;
high speed of comparing;
strict and exact syntax highlighting;
navigation by differences;
toggle views orientation (horizontal or vertical);
search and replace;
swap panes;
support command line parameters;
fully customizable menu, toolbars and shortcuts.

Requirements:

Visual Comparer was developed and tested on Windows NT (version 4.0), Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7. It does not contain platform-specific code. Therefore it should work equally well on the majority of other Windows-platforms.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000;
Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 5.0;
Windows Me, Windows 98;
Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5.0.
Non-Unicode version of Visual Comparer does not support text files in UNICODE or UTF-8 formats;

Features

The full-functional text editor

The full-functional text editor does line comparing and allows to carry out additional editing of the text while matching. It is done as conveniently and easily as in the usual text editor.

Visual Comparer not only powerful file compare tool but also powerful and convenient text editor!

Features list:

full Undo/Redo support;
bookmarks;
line number in the margin;
support of DOS, Unix, Macintosh and mixed "end-of-line" format in text files;
find and replace with regular expressions support;
support of text files in Unicode and UTF-8 formats (Unicode version only);
copying of the selected text to the clipboard in HTML format with syntax highlighting.

Strict and exact syntax highlighting

The majority of modern text editing tools possess a syntax highlighting feature of various programming languages. Visual Comparer has this feature as well.

Settings of syntax highlight's of Visual Comparer

Visual Comparer supports syntax highlighting for the following programming languages:

HTML and CSS2;
C and C++ (based on Visual C++ 6.0);
C# (C Sharp - Visual Studio.NET);
Visual Basic .NET;
VBScript .NET;
JScript .NET (version 7.0 from Visual Studio.NET);
Borland Delphi 7;
Perl (version 5.005);
and more ...

Line matching

Visual Comparer supports char-by-char lines comparison (F12 and Shift+F12 to enable this mode). Unequal chars are marked red. See the screenshot:

You can also range lines in a separate block of differences ("Adjust similar lines"). This feature is based on the "lines similarity" concept:

Pic. 1. Before adjusting

Pic. 2. After adjusting

Search and Replace

Navigation by differences with synchronization feature

Differences navigator in Visual Comparer

The recommendation: Use keyboard shortcuts to move between differences. It is more efficient and convenient than using the buttons located on command toolbars.