Text Patch Commands
Description: Following is a description of the Text Patch 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 Patch 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 File menu

| Open With | Opens the file in one of the external Open With applications.
| Open With > Associated Application | Opens the file with its associated application.
| Open With > Text Edit | Opens the file with the built-in text editor.
| Apply Patch | Applies the patch file.

The Edit menu

| Copy | Copies selection to the Clipboard.
| Select All | Selects all visible lines in the current pane.
| Select Section | Selects all lines in the current section.

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.
| Previous Difference Section | Positions at previous difference section.
| Next Difference Files | Opens the next pair of files with differences.
| Previous Difference Files | Opens the previous pair of files with differences.
| Find | Searches for 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

| 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.
| Thumbnail | 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.
| Alignment Details | Shows or hides the alignment details panel at bottom of view.
| Ruler | Shows or hides the line details ruler.
| Toolbar | Shows or hides the toolbar.

* Hidden by default.