Text Merge Commands
Description: Following is a description of the Text Merge commands, in addition to the common commands. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons.
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Following is a description of the Text Merge commands, in addition to the common commands. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons.

Pick Tools > Options and switch to the Commands page to define your own keyboard shortcuts, and hide or expose commands on the menus and toolbars.

The Session menu

| Save Session | Saves the current session.
| Save Session As | Saves the current session under a new name.
| Session Settings | Opens the Text Merge Session Settings dialog.
| Locked | Locks or unlocks current session.
| Clear Session | Replaces the current view with an empty Text Merge.
| 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.
| Text Merge Info | Displays merge statistics.
| Compare to Output > Left Side / Center Side / Right Side | Opens the file on the indicated side and the output file in a new Text Compare session.
| Merge Parent Folders | Opens a new Folder Merge session based on the parent folders of the currently loaded files.

The File menu

| Open File | Opens an existing file into the picked pane.
| Open File on File System * | Opens an existing local file into the picked pane.
| Open File Using Profile * | Opens an existing file into the picked pane using a profile.
| Open Clipboard | Loads the Clipboard contents into the picked pane.
| Open With | Opens the picked pane's file in one of the external Open With applications.
| Open With > Associated Application | Opens the picked pane's file with its associated application.
| Open With > Text Edit | Opens the picked pane's file with the built-in text editor.
| Open With > Text Patch | Opens the picked pane's file with the built-in patch view.
| Save File | Saves the modified file from the picked pane.
| Save File As | Saves the file from the picked pane with a new name.
| Save File on File System As * | Saves the file from the picked pane with a new name on the file system.
| Save File Using Profile As * | Saves the file from the picked pane with a new name using a profile.
| Explorer | Displays the file manager's context menu for the file in the picked pane.

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.
| Conflict | Clears or sets conflict for selected lines or current section.
| Take Left / Take Center / Take Right | Takes selected lines or current section from indicated side.
| Take Left Then Right / Take Right Then Left | Takes selected lines or current section from left and right in the indicated order.
| Take Left Line / Take Center Line / Take Right Line | Takes current line from indicated 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.
| Compare Selection to Clipboard | Compares the selected text with the contents of the clipboard in a new view.

The Search menu

| Clear Conflict Section, Next | Clears conflict for current section and positions at next conflict section.
| Next Conflict Section | Positions at next conflict section.
| Previous Conflict Section | Positions at previous conflict section.
| Next Difference | Positions at next difference text.
| Previous Difference | Positions at previous difference text.
| Next Difference Section | Positions at next difference section.
| 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.)
| Take Left File and Open Next Difference | Takes the entire left-side file and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
| Take Right File and Open Next Difference | Takes the entire right-side file and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
| Next Left Taken / Next Right Taken | Positions at next range of lines where indicated side was taken.
| Previous Left Taken / Previous Right Taken | Positions at previous range of lines where indicated side was taken.
| 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 unchanged, same change, left change, right change, different change and conflict lines.
| Show Changes | Shows same change, left change, right change, different change and conflict lines.
| Show Conflicts | Shows conflict lines.
| Show Left Changes | Shows same change, left change, different change and conflict lines.
| Show Right Changes | Shows same change, right change, different change and conflict lines.
| Show Mergeable | Shows same change, left change, right change, and different change lines.
| Show Unchanged | Shows unchanged lines.
| Show None * | Shows no 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.
| Ignore Same Changes | Treats same changes as same.
| Favor Left Changes | Suppresses highlighting of left-only changes in output.
| Favor Right Changes | Suppresses highlighting of right-only changes in output.
| Ignored | Ignores (or unignores) 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.
| Word Wrap | Enables or disables wrapping long lines.
| Display Font * | Selects the font to use in editor panes.
| Increase Display Font Size * | Increases editor font size.
| Decrease Display Font Size * | Decreases editor font size.
| Reset Display Font Size * | Resets editor font size.
| Side-by-Side Layout | Arranges editor panes left and right of each other.
| Over-Under Layout | Arranges editor panes above and below each other.
| Detached Output Pane | Shows output pane in separate window.
| Webpages | Shows or hides web browser panels that display the current files as webpages.
| Thumbnail | Shows or hides the thumbnail summary of changes at left of view.
| Center Pane | Shows or hides center pane.
| 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.
| Toolbar | Shows or hides the toolbar.

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