The Miscellaneous branch under Configuration - Display -Text has the following options:
Mark empty lines
If this option is selected empty lines will be indicated in the compare panes with alternating blue and white vertical lines. If this is not selected, the background color for the compare panes will not change when empty lines are encountered.
Highlight active frames only
If this option is selected only the two active frames in a 3-way compare would show highlighting for character differences. If this is not selected then all three frames would be highlighted to indicate character differences.
Mark merge blocks
If this option is selected merged blocks will be highlighted to support review of merged items prior to saving.
Show tabs
This option displays spaces, tabs, and new line characters as visible characters.
Tab Stop Value
This setting may be used to set the number of spaces a TAB character should be equal to for display purposes.
Show active line window
This option displays an additional window highlighting the differences between the lines which have focus in the active compare.
Differences indicator
This setting determines if difference indicators should be displayed between line numbers and text during a Text Compare.
Compare Symbol |
Meaning |
!> |
data exists in right frame but not left |
<! |
data exists in left frame but not right |
!! |
only empty lines exist here |
* |
data exists in both frames but is different |
Merge buttons on splitter
This option is a toggle to display or not display Merge Buttons on the bar separating adjacent compare frames.
Show line numbers
Selecting this option causes line numbers for the compared files to be displayed to the left of the contents of each file. This can be particularly helpful in identifying where the same lines may occur in both files but in different locations and also helps to clarify where lines occur in only one of the compared files (in this case line numbers would not be displayed in the file in which the compared lines do not occur).