How Do I Use Beyond Compare: Introduction to Beyon
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Forty things about Beyond Compare
Acknowledgements
Learn Beyond Compare in 5 Minutes
Quickstart: open two directories
Quickstart: open two files
Quickstart: move a file
Text Compare: understand the display
Downloads
Text Compare
How to use Beyond Compare for Text Compare
In Beyond Compare, what are unimportant differences?
Why no word-wrap ??
How to use Beyond Compare to confirm 100% replacement
Ignore Trivial Differences, Like Timestamps
Git
How to use Beyond Compare with Git
Do a roll-back to peek at your old code
Quickstart: Folder Merge
Why merge three folders?
Beyond Compare Three-Way Folder Merge Symbols Explained
How to compare two commits, both old, in Git
Git mergetool: merging three files.
How to recover an older version of your code with Git and Beyond Compare
Peeking under the hood at how Git does its thing
Getting better at Git
Find changes since last commit
Patches
How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare for Version Control
Scripts and the Command Line
How to use Beyond Compare in the Terminal
How to do an automatic backup every day
Write a Batch File That Will Start Several Syncs Simultaneously
Write a batch file that will start several text compares automatically
TL; DR
Table Compare
Quickstart: open a couple of Excel spreadsheets
Example: finding missing items in a pair of spreadsheets
Keys
Mismatched Columns
Longer example, opening .csv files
How to remove columns from a spreadsheet
Aligned vs Unaligned
Example: List of City Trees
Sync / Folders
Backup your entire computer (Part One)
Backup your entire computer (Part Two)
Backup, advanced
RegEx Examples: Filename Alignment Overide
Scan a lot or a little
Other
Peek
Binary
Undo
Colors
How to compare images
Report: Text Compare
Report: Table Compare
Looooonnnnngggg lines...
Binary: How to see the 1's and 0's
How to write your first script
How to find redundant or duplicate files
Minor Edge Cases
Shortcut Key
How to ignore parts of your file
Folder System Context Menus
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Minor Edge Cases
These are things I need once a year. By bothering to list them here I am guaranteeing that I will never encounter them again, probably. That's fine too.

How to look at minified code?

If you have a single line of text that is 50,000 chars long, BC will have trouble applying its grammar and RegEx rules until you increase the line length of the display. Format-Button: Conversion->CharactersPerLine[60,000...]

How to set the display to use the colors from an oil painting?

I am a lousy colorist but I like rich color. Plus I'm colorblind so I need something more bold than the default pinks in Beyond Compare. I found an Elaine de Kooning painting on DuckDuckGo images, pointed the Mac colorpicker at it, and used the colors as my settings. Those are the colors in most of my screenshots here. If you want my colors, or want to improve my colors, download this file and then in Beyond Compare choose: Tools->ImportSettings. Then tweek them at Tools->Preferences->Colors.
elaine-de-Kooning-feb2019
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color-settings

To Do:

Git Diff two versions of a css stylesheet
folder sync scheduled backup
folder sync to a server with ssh keys
folder sync I've made a mess of my backups
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How to look at minified code?
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