Guiffy Compare Controls

This page introduces the compare controls for Guiffy.

Ignore Options

The Ignore options dialog controls Guiffy's compare in terms of ignoring case or whitespace while comparing files. Choose Options -> Ignore to select these controls.

Ignore Case

Causes Case of the text to be ignored during the compare.

Ignore Whitespace

Causes Whitespace ( spaces and tabs ) differences to be ignored during the compare.

Show Options

The Show options dialog controls Guiffy's compare display in terms of tab spacing, display only the differences or entire files, display of the differences within N lines of context, and display of line numbers. Choose Options -> Show to select these controls.

Show Tab Size

Sets the number of spaces to be displayed for one tab character. The default is 8 spaces.

Show Only Differences

Causes the compare expression to show only the differences. The default is to show the complete files with matching lines of text and differences.

OR Show Differences within N Lines of Context

Alternatively, Causes the compare expression to show differences with the selected number of lines of matching text before and after each difference.

Show Line Numbers

Causes the compare expression to show the line number with each line of text displayed.

Show SubFolders(Recursively)

Causes Folder Compares to recursively compare SubFolders - Folder Compare becomes a Tree Compare.

See also:

Toolbar
Options Menu