Top Ten Reasons You May Fall In Love With It Too

9. Fly-by merge buttons

DeltaWalker's merge buttons are always there when you need them and not a second longer. Clear, non-intrusive, well positioned, and versatile in functionality, they are a powerful and ergonomic way of merging differences. With their help you can replace, add, and delete a difference.

8. Side-by-side folder and file comparison

The ergonomics of the way DeltaWalker integrates folder and file comparison can hardly be overstated. Leveraging the familiar file-system browser metaphor, DeltaWalker encourages you to see both the forest and the trees. Browse through your folder comparison results and when a file stops your attention—double click it and DeltaWalker will open it for comparison just below the folder comparison window (default position). It's that intuitive.

7. Comparison summary panels

Sensitive to the content being compared—files, folders, or XML—the comparison summary panels located in the right corner of the status bar represent:

• The essence of the comparison summary dialog information—unambiguously and non-intrusively.
• A color legend for the difference colors—the colors depicting deletion, addition, inline difference, and conflicting inline difference.

	Status bar summary panels, three-way text file comparison
	Status bar summary panels, two-way XML file comparison
	Status bar summary panels, three-way folder comparison

6. Difference navigation

The convenience of difference navigation in a diff tool is of the essence. In addition to the pairs of menu and toolbar items and shortcut keys dedicated to this, DeltaWalker offers two more ways for navigating differences:

• Navigate differences mini-buttons located just below the common scrollbar:
• Ctrl+Mouse Wheel
• Ctrl+Shift+Mouse Wheel

5. QuickDiffs

QuickDiffs tell you the story behind a change/edit as the change is being made:

• Using colors they indicate additions, deletions, and inline changes to the editor's content, compared to the content at the time of loading the file, or compared to a blank document if you started with a blank document.
• Using tooltips they can show the original version of the modified block of text.

4. Birds-eye view

The birds-eye view communicates these about a difference:

• type—deletion, addition, difference, and conflicting difference (three-way comparison only)
• size
• frequency
• distribution
• selection, if any

True to form, it does so in an accessible, timely, subtle, and clear way. Clicking on a marker in the birds-eye view brings the difference it represents into view and selects it.

 

3. Search, don't scroll

Search, as fast as you type, for the files and folders you care about in your folder comparison window. A useful little feature, the folder comparison search lets you instantly find your way in folder hierarchies with hundreds and thousands of files. Simply start typing the name of the file(s) or folder(s) of interest and watch the contents of the folder trees get automatically filtered and the results of your search query—highlighted.

2. Location transparency

With support for file visualization and comparison over HTTP(S), file saving over (S)FTP, and folder comparison and synchronization over (S)FTP you can stop joggling multiple applications when working with remote files and folders. DeltaWalker allows you treat them all the same and if your network speed is good enough you may not even notice you are working with remote resources. You can also visualize and compare content of BZ2, EAR, GZ, JAR, TAR, TBZ2, TGZ and ZIP compressed files - DeltaWalker presents them the same way it presents folders - as hierarchical structures.

1. Runs everywhere

DeltaWalker plays nicely with all your friends: it runs on Windows. On Linux. On the Mac.