File comparison
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| Two-way comparison | Shows added, deleted and blocks of text with inline changes. |  |
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| In-place editing | Full-featured text editor. | |
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| Remote comparison |
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| Compressed files | Visualization and comparison of BZ2, EAR, GZ, JAR, TAR, TBZ2, TGZ and ZIP files. | |
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| Office and PDF documents | Text extraction and comparison of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and Adobe PDF documents. | |
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| Optional insertion of line breaks | Preference-controlled ability to insert line breaks at a specified offset when loading Office documents. | |
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| Find/Replace | Regular expressions powered Find/Replace. | |
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| Incremental Find | Searches for a word as you type it in the editor (a.k.a. "vi style find"). | |
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| Instant re-comparison | As a file is edited, comparison is performed discreetly in the background, ensuring changes are shown as soon as they are made. | |
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| Character encoding | Full support for Unicode and MBCS. Choice to work with languages or character sets. | |
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| Encoding auto-detection | Upon opening a text file DeltaWalker will automatically attemp to deduce its encoding. | |
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| Undo/Redo | Unlimited Undo/Redo works across files participating in a comparison. | |
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| Bird's eye view | Thin vertical stripe showing at a glance the extent and the location of differences between the compared files. | |
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| QuickDiffs |  Show what and how has changed during editing. Hover over the colored Quick Diff
area to see a tooltip with the original text. |
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| Three-way comparison |  Allows for comparing two versions of a file against a common ancestor. Full merge
and editing capabilities available. Supported layouts:
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| Automatic text file merging | |
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| XML Structure view | XML files are compared both as text and as structures (technology preview). | |
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| HTML Design view | HTML files are compared both as text and as rendered by the system-default Web browser | |
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| One-click merge | |
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| Report generation | HTML and XML format reports | |
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| Patch creation | Ability to generate UNIX Diff patches in four different formats | |
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| Change notification | On by default, it prompts you when a file or a folder being compared has been changed on the file system. | |
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| Symbolic links | Preference-controlled ability to follow symbolic links or to show/edit them as files. | |
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| Print and print preview | Accurate, WYSIWYG print and print preview. | |
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| Page setup | Interactive page margins, header & footer setup allows for including file names, page numbers, date/time, or other advanced tags. | |
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| Regular expression filters | Allow you to specify keywords or symbols to be ignored during file comparison. | |
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Automatic merging of non-conflicting differences from two versions of a file into
an ancestor. Conflicting changes are highlighted and left for review and resolution.
Fly-by arrows appear when the cursor is over a change and allow for a single-click
merge. Holding down Ctrl or Ctrl+Shift offers
additional options. Folder comparison
| Feature | Description | Std | Oro |
| Background processing | Folder comparison is performed in a background thread, allowing you to continue to use DeltaWaker while folder comparison is in progress. | |
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| 2-way comparison | Clearly shows added, deleted, and different files between two folder hierarchies. | |
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| Remote comparison | Read/write over (S)FTP, WebDAV | |
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| Compressed files support | Visualization and comparison of BZ2, EAR, GZ, JAR, TAR, TBZ2, TGZ and ZIP files. | |
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| Folder synchronization | Synchronize folder hierarchies by copying, moving and deleting files. | |
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| Search don't scroll | Search as fast as you type for files and folders of interest. | |
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| Filters | Shell and Regular expression filters allow you to specify patterns for inclusion or exclusion of files and folders during comparison. | |
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| Report generation | HTML and XML reports; "Linked Reports" option allows you to include links to individual file comparison reports. | |
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| Patch creation | Ability to generate folder comparison UNIX Diff patches in four different formats | |
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| Next/previous difference | Offers an efficient way (incl. Ctrl + Mouse Wheel) to traverse folder differences. | |
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| Symbolic links | Preference-controlled ability to follow symbolic links or to show/edit them as files. | |
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| Print and print preview | Accurate, WYSIWYG print and print preview. | |
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| 3-way comparison | Available layouts:
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| Automatic merge | Automatic merging of non-conflicting differences from two folder hierarchies into a common ancestor. | |
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| Bird's Eye | Thin vertical stripe showing at a glance the extent and the location of differences between the compared folder hierarchies. | |
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| Local toolbar | A toolbar offering access to operations specific only to folder comparison. Keeps overall user interface simple and uncluttered. | |
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| One-click resource exclusion | Ability to exclude, i.e. add to the list of folder comparison filters, files and/or folders via a single right click, paired with easy access to those filters from within folder comparison. | |
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| One-click Set as Root folder | Ability to set root folder in folder comparison via a single click. | |
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| Configurable threshold when comparing timestamps | Ability to ignore differences in timestamps smaller than a configurable threshold. Eliminates artificial timestamp differences introduced by file systems e.g. FAT32 with low-accuracy timestamp-setting API. | |
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Other
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| Context sensitive help | Comprehensive help coverage of all aspects of product functionality. Help topic capable of displaying alongside the main application area or application dialog boxes. | |
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| Software updates | System tray-based software update notifications | |
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| Command line interface | Command line supported file and folder comparison operations facilitating integration with other applications. | |
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| Sessions | A DeltaWalker session offers a quick way of launching a recent file or folder comparison. It holds all the information required to run that comparison the same way you ran it last time. | |
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| Content type detection | Built-in mechanism for automatic file content type detection paired with a set of predefined content types mapped to known file extensions and the ability to manually overwrite these mappings if necessary. | |
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| Drag and drop | Drag and drop files or folders from Finder or your desktop directly into the content panels or the file/folder selectors. | |
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| Preferences | Ability to customize most aspects of comparison operations - from colors and fonts to settings affecting the results of the actual comparison. | |
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