Text Compare Commands
Description: Following is a description of the Text Compare 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 Compare 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 Compare Session Settings dialog.
| Locked | Locks or unlocks current session.
| Clear Session | Replaces the current view with an empty Text Compare.
| 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 Compare Report | Produces the Text Compare report.
| Text Compare Info | Displays comparison statistics.
| Compare Files Using | Opens the displayed files in a new session using a different class of file view.
| Merge Files | Opens a new Text Merge session based on the currently loaded files.
| Compare Parent Folders | Opens a new Folder Compare 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.
| Check In | Appears if a source control provider has been configured and the file is under source control.
| Check Out |
| Undo Check Out |

The Edit menu

| Undo | Undoes previous action.
| Redo | Redoes previously undone action.
| Align With | Allows you to select one or more lines, and then click on a line on the other side to force them to be side-by-side.
| Isolate | Realigns comparison so that selected lines are by themselves.
| Replacement | Adds item to the replacement list based on the current difference.
| Copy to Right / Copy to Left * | Copies selected lines or current section to indicated side.
| Copy to Other Side | Copies selected lines or current section to opposite side. The caption and icon appear as Copy to Right or Copy to Left depending on the current side.
| Copy Line to Right / Copy Line to Left * | Copies current line to indicated side.
| Copy Line to Other Side | Copies current line to other side. The caption and icon appear as Copy Line to Right or Copy Line to Left depending on the current 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.
| Convert File > Trim Trailing Whitespace | Strips off spaces and tab characters at end of lines.
| Convert File > Leading Spaces to Tabs | Replaces spaces at the beginning of lines with the appropriate number of tab characters (based on current tab stop setting).
| Convert File > Tabs To Spaces | Replaces all tab characters with the appropriate number of space characters (based on current tab stop setting).
| Convert File > Line Endings | Changes the line ending style on all lines.

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 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.)
| Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference | Copies the entire left-side file to the right and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
| Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference | Copies the entire right-side file to the left and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
| Next Replacement | Positions at next replacement text.
| Previous Replacement | Positions at previous replacement text.
| 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 all lines, with or without differences.
| Show Differences | Shows only lines with differences.
| Show Same | Shows only lines without differences.
| Show None * | Hides all 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.
| Ignored | Suppresses 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| File Info | Shows or hides file information panels at the top of editor panes.
| Toolbar | Shows or hides the toolbar.

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