WinMerge 2.16 Help

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Denis Bradford

Dean Grimm

Laurent Ganier

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Perry Rapp

Christian List

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Revision 1.7.5

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Table of Contents

About WinMerge Help
1. Audience and scope
2. How to access Help
3. How to use Help
4. Documentation conventions
Quick start
1. Selecting files and folders to compare
2. Comparing folders
3. Comparing files
Introduction to WinMerge
1. WinMerge versions
2. Getting support and reporting bugs
3. WinMerge source code and development
Getting and installing WinMerge
1. Getting files
2. Compatibility
3. Using the installer (recommended)
4. Installing from an archive
5. Enabling Windows Explorer shell integration without the installer
Overview of file comparing and merging
1. Comparing files
2. Merging files
Opening files and folders
1. Select Files or Folders dialog
2. Launching WinMerge operations in Windows Explorer
3. Using Drag and drop
4. Project files
Comparing and merging folders
1. Starting a folder compare operation
2. Folder Compare window
3. File operations in Folder Compare
4. Browsing folders in the Folder Compare window
5. Customizing the Folder Compare window
6. Using Windows shell commands from the Folder Compare window
Comparing and merging text files
1. Starting a file compare operation
2. File Compare window
3. Navigating differences
4. Syncronization points
5. Merging differences
Comparing in hexadecimal format
Comparing in table format
1. Comparing in table format
2. Table format settings
3. Table format-specific operations
Comparing image files
1. Starting a image compare operation
2. Image Compare window
Comparing Web pages
Options and configuration
1. Importing and Exporting options
2. General page
3. Compare General page
4. Compare Folder page
5. Compare Table page
6. Compare Binary page
7. Compare Image page
8. Editor page
9. Colors page
10. Differences Colors page
11. Syntax Colors page
12. Text Colors page
13. Marker Colors page
14. Folder Compare Colors page
15. Archive Support page
16. System page
17. Backup Files page
18. Codepage page
19. Shell Integration page
Locale support
1. Configuring the localization
2. Changing the WinMerge interface language
3. Available WinMerge localizations
4. Reporting errors in translation
5. Submitting a new translation
Plugins
1. Plugin Types
2. Suggested plugins and automatic modes
3. Applying plugins
4. Available plugins
5. Requirements
Using Filters
1. Using file masks
2. Using file filters
3. Using line filters
4. Using substitution filters
5. Using the Filters dialog
6. Getting help with regular expressions
Command line
Using WinMerge with other tools
1. Using the command-line interface (CLI)
2. Using WinMerge with version control systems
Frequently asked questions
1. General questions
2. File comparing
3. Questions about editor
4. WinMerge as external compare or diff-tool
5. Archive support
6. Text encoding (codepages)
7. Patch files
A. Shortcut keys
Index