WinMerge 2.4 Manual

Revision 1.1.6

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 2.4
4.2. What's new in 2.2
5. Getting and installing WinMerge
5.1. Getting files
5.2. Using installer (recommended)
5.3. Installing from 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 Extension
7.3. Drag and Drop
7.4. Project file
8. Comparing Folders
8.1. Folder Compare Statepane
8.2. Compare Results
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. Difference Navigation
9.5. Merging Differences
9.6. Merge Mode
9.7. Refreshing
9.8. View Whitespaces
9.9. Editing Files
9.10. Line Difference Highlight
9.11. Line Difference Selection
9.12. Context Menu
9.13. 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
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. Plugin details
13.4. Windows Script Host
14. Filters
14.1. Regular expressions
14.2. File filters
14.3. Line filters
15. Version control integration
15.1. Visual SourceSafe
16. Commandline
17. Frequently asked questions
17.1. General questions
17.2. Questions about binary files
17.3. Questions about editor
17.4. WinMerge as external compare or diff-tool
17.5. Archive support
17.6. Text encoding (codepages)
17.7. Patch files
A. Shortcut keys