WinMerge 2.8 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. Getting and Installing WinMerge

4.1. Getting Files

4.2. Using the Installer (recommended)

4.3. Installing from an Archive

4.4. Shell Integration

4.5. 7-Zip and Archive Support

5. Differences in files and how WinMerge handles them

5.1. What is a difference?

5.2. Missing lines

5.3. Merging difference

6. Opening Files and Folders

6.1. Open-Dialog

6.2. Shell Integration

6.3. Drag and Drop

6.4. Project Files

7. Comparing Folders

7.1. Compare Results

7.2. Folder Compare Status

7.3. Selecting Items to Show

7.4. Columns in Folder Compare

7.5. Browsing Folders

7.6. Navigation in Folder Compare

7.7. File Operations in Folder Compare

7.8. Copying Path- or Filenames

7.9. Customising Folder Compare

7.10. Protecting Folders / Read-only Folders

7.11. Hiding Items

7.12. Refreshing Only Selected Items

8. Comparing Files

8.1. Showing the Differences

8.2. Tabs

8.3. File Headerbar

8.4. Statusbar

8.5. Editor Margin

8.6. Difference Navigation

8.7. Merging Differences

8.8. Merge Mode

8.9. Refreshing

8.10. View Whitespaces

8.11. Editing Files

8.12. Line Difference Highlight

8.13. Line Difference Selection

8.14. Location Pane

8.15. Context Menu

8.16. Fonts

8.17. Resolving Conflict Files

9. Options & configuration

9.1. General options

9.2. Compare options

9.3. Editor options

9.4. System options

9.5. Backup Files

9.6. Archive Support

9.7. Codepage options

9.8. Import and Export of options

10. Text Encoding (codepages)

10.1. Common scenarios

10.2. Explanation

11. Locale support

11.1. Selecting language

11.2. Installing translation

11.3. Reporting error in translation

11.4. Submitting a new translation

12. Plugins

12.1. Three categories of plugins

12.2. Select and apply a plugin

12.3. Available plugins

12.4. Requirements

13. Filters

13.1. Regular expressions

13.2. File filters

13.3. Line filters

14. Version control integration

14.1. Visual SourceSafe

15. Command Line

15.1. Conflict File

16. Frequently asked questions

16.1. General questions

16.2. Installing

16.3. File Comparing

16.4. Questions about editor

16.5. WinMerge as external compare or diff-tool

16.6. Archive support

16.7. Text encoding (codepages)

16.8. Patch files

A. Shortcut keys

Index