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Launch the Copy History Compare Tool

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Launch the Copy History Compare Tool

To compare two items copied to the clipboard history

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This table describes the Toolbar actions in the Copy Compare Results tab.

 

Icon Description
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View files side-by-side (Default viewer) or in a single panel (Unified viewer).

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Define how the difference engine should treat white spaces in the text and controls case-sensitive behavior.
 

  • Do not ignore: Performs a case-sensitive comparison and does not trim occurrence of whitespaces and empty lines.
  • Ignore case: Performs a case insensitive comparison.
  • Trim whitespaces: Trims the trailing and leading whitespaces.
  • Trim whitespaces and ignore case: Trims the trailing and leading whitespaces and performs a case insensitive comparison.
  • Ignore whitespaces: Ignores whitespaces.
  • Ignore whitespaces and empty lines: Performs a case-insensitive comparison and ignores occurrence of whitespaces.

    This option is not available when you view files in the Unified viewer.

  • Ignore whitespaces, empty lines, ignore case: Performs a case-insensitive comparison and ignores occurrence of whitespaces and empty lines.
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Lets you specify how the difference engine calculates and highlights granularity differences.
 

  • Do not highlight: Does not highlight the differences.

    This option is not available when you view files in the Unified viewer.

  • Highlight lines: Highlights the lines containing differences.
  • Highlight words: Highlights the words in the line containing differences.
  • Highlight split changes: Splits and highlights differences in a paragraph.

For example, if the Comparison Result Window shows 16 differences, then after split changes, the Comparison Result Window shows 26 differences.
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Manage a larger amount of code within one window by collapsing all unchanged code fragments in both files. It’s easy to view the collapsed code in a tooltip, on mouse-hover.

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Synchronize scrolling provides users the flexibility to control the scrolling of both panes simultaneously or individually.

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Show or hide line numbers, indentation guides, white spaces, and soft wraps. The same options are available as right-click options on the Annotation bar.
 

  • Show Whitespaces: Displays an arrow when it finds a Tab and displays a period when it finds a space character in the script.
  • Show Line Numbers: Displays a line number for each line in the script.
  • Show Indent Guides: Displays indent levels in the script.
  • Use Soft Wraps: Wraps longer lines exceeding the pane to the next line.
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Save the comparison result as HTML.

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Preview the saved comparison result in the HTML format.
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Open the Help topic associated with Copy Compare.
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View the previous difference.
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View the next difference.

Keyboard Shortcuts

ShortcutsDescription
F7Move to the next difference.
Shift+F7Move to the previous difference.
CTRL/Command+Shift+”-”Collapse unchanged fragments.
CTRL/Command+Shift+”+”Expand unchanged fragments.

Find


For each pane, you can find specific text by using various toolbar options and keyboard shortcut keys. To invoke the Find toolbar, click anywhere in the pane and then press CTRL/Command+F. 
 

 

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