Text (Configuration - Compare)
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The Text branch under Configuration - Compare has the following options for Text Compares:

 

Scaled/Scrollable Map

This option allows the user to select either Scaled map or Scrollable map controlling the display of the graphical navigation pane.  If Scaled map is selected, differences are proportionately represented for the entirety of both compared files rather than shown as a scrollable map.

 

Use character to character line comparison

Normally UltraCompare uses a comparison method that tries to determine like sequences within a set of sequences - scanning a line for common letters and words to match against.  If preferred, the customer may select this option to instruct UltraCompare to perform a character to character comparison instead.  For files with long lines or large files, users may notice a significant decrease in compare times with this option selected.

 

Disable character highlighting

Normally in a text compare, characters which differ between matched lines are highlighted with a different color than characters that match.  This can be resource intensive when comparing large files.  If this option is selected, the highlighting of characters detected as different is not executed and the line as a whole is highlighted as being different.

 

Use double click to select word

If this option is selected, a mouse double click in the body of a file opened for text compare will select the word in which the caret is displayed rather than opening the active files in UltraEdit.  When this option is selected, CTRL+Double Click should be used to open the active files in UltraEdit.

 

Use triple click to select line

If this option is selected, a mouse triple click in the body of a file opened for text compare will select the active line.  When this option is selected, CTRL+Double Click should be used to open the active files in UltraEdit.