WinMerge 2.6 Manual

Table of Contents

1. About This Document

2. Quick Start

2.1. Opening Files and Folders

2.2. Comparing Folders

2.3. Comparing Files

3. Introduction to WinMerge

3.1. WinMerge Versions

3.2. Getting Support and Reporting Bugs

3.3. WinMerge Source Codes and Development

4. What's new in release

4.1. What's new in 2.6

4.2. What's new in 2.4

4.3. What's new in 2.2

5. Getting and Installing WinMerge

5.1. Getting Files

5.2. Using the Installer (recommended)

5.3. Installing from an Archive

5.4. Shell Integration

5.5. 7-Zip and Archive Support

6. Differences in files and how WinMerge handles them

6.1. What is a difference?

6.2. Missing lines

6.3. Merging difference

7. Opening Files and Folders

7.1. Open-Dialog

7.2. Shell Integration

7.3. Drag and Drop

7.4. Project Files

8. Comparing Folders

8.1. Compare Results

8.2. Folder Compare Status

8.3. Selecting Items to Show

8.4. Columns in Folder Compare

8.5. Browsing Folders

8.6. Navigation in Folder Compare

8.7. File Operations in Folder Compare

8.8. Copying Path- or Filenames

8.9. Customising Folder Compare

8.10. Protecting Folders / Read-only Folders

8.11. Hiding Items

8.12. Refreshing Only Selected Items

9. Comparing Files

9.1. Showing the Differences

9.2. File Headerbar

9.3. Statusbar

9.4. Editor Margin

9.5. Difference Navigation

9.6. Merging Differences

9.7. Merge Mode

9.8. Refreshing

9.9. View Whitespaces

9.10. Editing Files

9.11. Line Difference Highlight

9.12. Line Difference Selection

9.13. Location Pane

9.14. Context Menu

9.15. Fonts

10. Options & configuration

10.1. General options

10.2. Compare options

10.3. Editor options

10.4. System options

10.5. Archive Support

10.6. Codepage options

10.7. Import and Export of options

11. Text Encoding (codepages)

11.1. Common scenarios

11.2. Explanation

12. Locale support

12.1. Selecting language

12.2. Installing translation

12.3. Reporting error in translation

12.4. Submitting a new translation

13. Plugins

13.1. Three categories of plugins

13.2. Select and apply a plugin

13.3. Available plugins

13.4. Requirements

14. Filters

14.1. Regular expressions

14.2. File filters

14.3. Line filters

15. Version control integration

15.1. Visual SourceSafe

16. Command Line

17. Frequently asked questions

17.1. General questions

17.2. Installing

17.3. File Comparing

17.4. Questions about binary files

17.5. Questions about editor

17.6. WinMerge as external compare or diff-tool

17.7. Archive support

17.8. Text encoding (codepages)

17.9. Patch files

A. Shortcut keys

Index