Feature Request: Winmerge integration
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Hi guys,
Thanks for such an awesome that I use everyday. I am also a long time user of another sourceforge project winmerge and would love to have the two tools bundled together (twice the joy). Winmerge has a dll but as I am just getting into learning software I am not sure how these would work well together. Is it possible to get the two to interact so that I can compare two tabs in notepad++ and display differences so that I could use all the nice edit features of notepad++ while still being able to do the compare. Also it would be great if we could do dynamic update of the compares as we edit one file although this might slow the system down. I am learning C++ and would love to help to make this happen if somebody is willing to help.
p.s. if this has to be posted in the plugins forum please let me know. Was not sure sorry.
Sincerely
Ranganathan Sridharan,
Research Assistant,
MSVLSI Labs,
Oklahoma State University.
Hi Guys,
Sorry for replying to myself but I did not know how to edit my original comment and forgot to add one killer reason why I wanted this the most.
There is a modified text in the buffer that needs to be saved and it is usually days before I save and since I never quit notepad++ (and even if I do, I know notepad++ saves it) I forget what changes I made. So when it asks for save there could be a button that would show you diffs from original file to the text in buffer so I can decide whether to save the changes. Again I am willing to help on this if someone can get me started. So expecting somebody to collaborate with eagerly. Thanks.
Hmm so this Winmerge is like Beyond Compare?
I take it the plan would be to have an option in a menu "Compare Two Tabs" and then have a list of tabs in a left and right pane. You then click compare and it would fire that to the WinMerge?
I wonder if the exec plugins that I haven't explored yet can be used?
Hi,
I am thinking even more that what you are thinking but that might be done for starters. What I am thinking is a .dll that would return a list of differences and line numbers in a structure that would allow us to highlight the differences in the current tabs inside notepad++, much like having a built-in compare inside notepad++. I like winmerge but just for its comparison and the editor I would like to substitute with notepad++. Hope that clears my request. Thanks for your interest,please provide suggestions on this one.
Sincerely,
Ranganathan Sridharan