Table of contents
- WinMerge 2.14 Help
- About WinMerge Help
- Audience and scope
- How to access Help
- How to use Help
- Documentation conventions
- Quick start
- Selecting files and folders to compare
- Other ways to open files and folders
- Comparing folders
- Comparing files
- Introduction to WinMerge
- WinMerge versions
- Stable versions
- Beta versions
- Experimental versions
- Version tree
- Getting support and reporting bugs
- WinMerge source code and development
- Participating in WinMerge development
- Getting and installing WinMerge
- Getting files
- Compatibility
- Using the installer (recommended)
- Installing from an archive
- Enabling Windows Explorer shell integration without the installer
- 64-bit Windows Explorer shell integration
- 7-Zip and archive support
- Merge7z Installer
- Overview of file comparing and merging
- Comparing files
- Simple compare operation
- Merging files
- Simple merge operation
- Choosing a merge result file
- Opening files and folders
- Select Files or Folders dialog
- Using environment variables
- Opening archive files
- Applying filters
- Selecting an unpacker for file comparisons
- Launching WinMerge operations in Windows Explorer
- Enabling the Windows Explorer integration
- Using the WinMerge shortcut
- Using the advanced menu
- Including subfolders when using the Windows Explorer integration
- Using Drag and drop
- Project files
- Using project files
- Editing and saving project files
- Project file format
- Comparing and merging folders
- Starting a folder compare operation
- Folder Compare Progress window
- Folder Compare window
- Recursive and nonrecursive compare results
- File and folder icons
- Navigating the Folder Compare window
- Working with multiple Compare windows
- Using tabs with maximized Compare windows
- File operations in Folder Compare
- Copying files
- Context menu Copy shortcuts
- Toolbar and menu Copy commands
- Deleting files
- Renaming files
- Opening files
- Copying pathnames or filenames
- Protecting files
- Refreshing selected items in the view
- Archiving files
- Browsing folders in the Folder Compare window
- Browsing folders in a nonrecursive compare
- Browsing unique folders
- Customizing the Folder Compare window
- Showing and hiding types of files
- Changing column sorting
- Adding, removing, and reordering columns
- Hiding items
- Using Windows shell commands from the Folder Compare window
- Comparing and merging text files
- Starting a file compare operation
- File Compare window
- File panes
- File pane header
- Difference highlighting
- Line difference highlighting
- File pane editing features
- File pane fonts
- File pane margins
- Toolbar and menus
- Merge Mode
- Location pane
- Diff pane
- Status bars
- Working with multiple File Compare windows
- Using tabs with maximized Compare windows
- Navigating differences
- Navigation functions
- Merging differences
- Rescanning files
- Merge functions
- Resolving conflict files
- Options and configuration
- Importing and Exporting options
- General page
- Automatically scroll to first difference
- Disable splash screen
- Close Windows with ESC
- Automatically verify paths in Open-dialog
- Allow only one instance to run
- Ask when closing multiple windows
- Preserve file time in file compare
- Show "Select Files or Folders" Dialog on Startup
- Open-dialog Auto-Completion
- Enable multiple compare windows for
- Reset
- Compare General page
- About ignore options
- Whitespace
- Ignore blank lines
- Ignore case
- Ignore carriage return differences (Windows/Unix/Mac)
- Enable moved block detection
- Match similar lines
- Filter Comments
- Compare Folder page
- File Compare method
- Stop after first difference
- Ignore time differences less than 3 seconds
- Quick compare limit (MB)
- Editor page
- Syntax highlighting
- Automatic rescan
- Preserve original EOL chars
- Tab options
- View line differences
- Colors page
- Text Colors page
- Syntax Colors page
- Archive Support page
- Download 7-zip Plugin
- Enable archive file support
- Detect archive type from file signature
- System page
- Send deleted files to Recycle Bin
- External editor
- Filter Folder
- Temporary files folder
- Backup Files page
- Create backup files in
- Create backup files into
- Backup filename
- Version Control page
- Codepage page
- Default codepage for non-Unicode files
- Detect codepage info for these files: .html .rc .xml
- Shell Integration page
- Explorer
- Folder compare
- Locale support
- Configuring the localization
- Changing the WinMerge interface language
- Available WinMerge localizations
- Reporting errors in translation
- Submitting a new translation
- Plugins
- Plugin Types
- Suggested plugins and automatic modes
- Applying plugins
- Applying editor complement plugins in the File Compare window
- Applying unpacker plugins in the Folder Compare window
- Using automatic mode
- Using manual mode
- Applying unpacker plugins in the Select Files or Folders dialog
- Applying prediffer plugins in the Folder Compare window
- Applying prediffer plugins in the File Compare window
- Available plugins
- CompareMSExcelFiles.dll
- CompareMSWordFiles.dll
- DisplayXMLFiles.dll
- editor addin.sct
- IgnoreColumns.dll
- IgnoreCommentsC.dll
- IgnoreFieldsComma.dll
- IgnoreFieldsTab.dll
- IgnoreLeadingLineNumbers.dll
- insert datetime.sct
- RCLocalizationHelper.dll, RCLocalizationHelperU.dll
- WatchBeginningOfLog.dll, WatchEndOfLog.dll
- Requirements
- Windows Script Host
- Visual Basic runtime library
- Using Filters
- Using file masks
- Defining and applying file masks
- File mask syntax and example
- Using file filters
- File filter locations
- Applying file filters
- File filter syntax
- Using line filters
- Applying line filters
- Line filter syntax
- Using the Filters dialog
- Using the Filefilters tab
- Enabling and disabling file filters
- Configuring file filters
- Creating a file filter
- Testing file filter rules
- Using the Linefilters tab
- Configuring line filters
- Enabling and disabling line filters
- Getting help with regular expressions
- Command line
- Using WinMerge with other tools
- Using the command-line interface (CLI)
- Using WinMerge with version control systems
- Checking out versioned files from WinMerge
- Using WinMerge as a version control system's diff tool
- About the ClearCase integration
- Frequently asked questions
- General questions
- Installing
- File comparing
- Questions about editor
- WinMerge as external compare or diff-tool
- Archive support
- Text encoding (codepages)
- Patch files
- Shortcut keys