I’m still in the process of developing the smart change detection and I will try to make a good compromise between accuracy and compare speed.Īnd I was wondering if, having a setting to choose between the Compare v2.0.0 and the Compare v3.0. This post gives me the opportunity to talk about your future ComparePlus version, again ! Refer to the link, below :

2.Show the available plugin list, choose Compare and Install. Plugin -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager.

Attempts to detect obvious line moves as indicated by the double blue arrows, while marking other lines as deleted from old (left) and added to new (right) as described above.5s to create a new directory ComparePlugin, under my local configuration to extract the ComparePlugin.dll and the ComparePlugin folder inside this new directoryĪnd, from now on, the privilege of using this must plugin, as your new build is OK, too, with my old Windows XP SP3 system :-)) So first enable the plugin manager as asked by question here, Then follow this step to compare 2 files which is free in this software.

Then visually shifts the lines of the right file down so that the first line matches the identical line on the left (line 3).

Reads the first line of the right file and attempts to find an identical match on the left.

You can change the order via ' Set as First to Compare' option before making the comparison. And in the Plugins tab drop down, I can’t see the Plugin Manager I was having the 32bit version and did not see it.

Sets the document on the right ('base.txt') as the new file for comparing against the document on the left ('deployed.txt'). File Difference tool will help you to compare text files, XML, JSON, Code, String, binary files. Plugin -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager 2.Show the available plugin list, choose Compare and Install 3.Restart Notepad++.

If you disable Detect Moves then it will show the first two lines as deleted on the left and added to the right, since it considers the starting point to be the first line on the right. The red highlights illustrate which lines have been removed and the green highlights illustrate which have been added between the versions.Īlthough the lines are simply reordered in your example, the compare plugin can't intelligently depict it any other way than what you see. This can be disabled by unchecking ' Detect Moves' in the compare plugin options. The blue highlight attempts to show which lines exist in both documents but have been moved to different lines.

Notepad++ compare files 7.5.1