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
About Evan Genest
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Why no word-wrap ??
BC lacks word wrap for technical reasons. The Beyond Compare interface is giving you visual control over some powerful things. So far, Scooter has favored that power over the (seemingly simple) feature of wordwrap. Never say never, says Scooter (Version 5?) but the bottom line: wordwrap in Beyond Compare is not as simple to implement as it seems.
So for now, when lines are over 100 chars long, I:
1) go to over under layout: view->display over under.
2) If that is not enough, I zoom out with the shortcut key: Ctl + Shift + Scrollwheel (exact key varies per Mac/Win/Linux).
3) Finally, I inspect really long lines in the bottom mailslot window.
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