Text Compare Menus

Following is a description of the Text Compare commands, in addition to the common menu items. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons. From the Tools menu, select Customize Commands to define your own keyboard shortcuts, and hide or expose commands on the menus and toolbars. Commands shown below with an asterisk (*) are hidden by default.

The Session menu:

	Session Settings	Opens the Text Compare Session Settings dialog.
	Swap Sides	Exchanges the left and right files.
	Reload Files	Reloads the displayed files, prompting to save first if necessary.
	Recompare Files	Recompares the displayed files, preserving edits, but not undoability.
	Compare in New View Using	Opens the displayed files in a new session using a different class of file viewer.
	Merge in New View	Opens a new Text Merge session based on the currently loaded files.
	Compare Parent Folders in New View	Opens a new Folder Compare session based on the parent folders of the currently loaded files.
	Text Compare Report	Produces the Text Compare report.
	Text Compare Info	Displays comparison statistics.

The File menu:

	Open File	Opens an existing file into the selected pane.
	Open Clipboard	Loads the Clipboard contents into the selected pane.
	Open With	Opens the selected pane's file in one of the external Open With applications.
	Open with Web Browser	Views contents of the selected pane in a web browser window.
	Save File	Saves the modified file from the selected pane.
	Save File As	Saves the modified file from the selected pane with a new name.
	Explorer	Displays the Windows Explorer context menu for the file in the selected pane.
	Check In File	Appears if a source control provider has been configured and the file is under source control.
	Check Out File
	Undo Check Out

The Edit menu:

	Undo	Undoes previous action.
	Redo	Redoes previously undone action.
	Align With	Allows you to select one line, and then click on a second line to force them to be side-by-side.
	Isolate	Realigns comparison so that selected lines are by themselves.
	Copy to Right [Left] *	Copies selected lines or current section to indicated side.
	Copy to Other Side	Copies selected lines or current section to opposite side.
	Copy Line to Right [Left] *	Copies current line to indicated side.
	Copy Line to Other Side	Copies current line to other side.
	Increase Indent	Increases indentation of selected lines.
	Decrease Indent	Decreases indentation of selected lines.
	Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete	Standard editing commands.
	Delete Line *	Deletes the current line.
	Delete to Start of Line *	Deletes text from the current position to the beginning of the line.
	Delete to End of Line *	Deletes text from the current position to the end of the line.
	Delete Word *	Deletes the word at the current position.
	Delete to Start of Word *	Deletes from the current position to the beginning of the word.
	Delete to End of Word *	Deletes from the current position to the end of the word.
	Insert Line Before *	Inserts a new blank line before the current line.
	Insert Line After *	Inserts a new blank line after the current line.
	Select All	Selects all visible lines in the current pane.
	Select Section	Selects all lines in the current section.
	Convert File > Trim Trailing Whitespace	Strips off spaces and tab characters at end of lines.
	Convert File > Leading Spaces to Tabs	Replaces spaces at the beginning of lines with the appropriate number of tab characters (based on current tab stop setting).
	Convert File > Tabs To Spaces	Replaces all tab characters with the appropriate number of space characters (based on current tab stop setting).
	Full Edit	Toggles between full character mode editing (enabled) and BC2-like line mode (disabled) in the main file panes.

The Search menu:

	Next Difference	Positions at next difference text.
	Previous Difference	Positions at previous difference text.
	Next Difference Section	Positions at next difference section (contiguous range of lines with differences).
	Previous Difference Section	Positions at previous difference section.
	Next Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's next pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Previous Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's previous pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire right-side file to the left and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire left-side file to the right and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Next Edit	Positions at the next edited line beyond the cursor.
	Previous Edit	Positions at previous edited line before the cursor.
	Find	Searches for matching text.
	Replace	Replaces matching text.
	Find Next	Finds next occurrence of search string.
	Find Previous	Finds previous occurrence of search string.
	Go To	Positions at specified line and column.
	Toggle Bookmark	Places a numbered marker on the current line of the comparison, numbered from 0 to 9.
	Go To Bookmark	Repositions at the specified bookmark.
	Clear Bookmarks	Removes all bookmarks from the comparison.

The View menu:

	Show All	Shows all lines, with or without differences.
	Show Differences	Shows only lines with differences.
	Show Same	Shows only matching lines.
	Show None *	Hides all lines.
	Show Context	Shows lines surrounding differences. The number of context lines can be set in Text View Options.
	Ignore Unimportant Differences	Treats unimportant differences as same.
	Ignored	Ignore (or un-ignore) differences in selected lines or current section.
	Visible Whitespace	Shows or hides visible spaces, tabs.
	Line Numbers	Shows or hides line numbers.
	Syntax Highlighting	Shows or hides syntax highlighting.
	Display Font *	Selects the font to use in editor panes.
	Side-by-side Layout	Arranges editor panes side-by-side.
	Over-under Layout	Arranges editor panes above and below each other.
	Thumbnail View	Shows or hides the thumbnail summary of changes at left of view.
	Text Details	Shows or hides the text details panel at bottom of view.
	Hex Details	Shows or hides the hexadecimal details panel at bottom of view.
	Ruler	Shows or hides the line details ruler.
	File Info	Shows or hides file information panels at the top of editor panes.

* Hidden by default. Use Tools > Customize Commands to show this command on menus or toolbars.