Can also generate HTML report with differences highlighted. Highlights differences inside lines in file compare.

Location pane shows map of files compared. Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes. Unicode support (as of version 2.8.0, UTF-8 files are correctly read without a BOM). Handles DOS, Unix and Mac text file formats. Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap. Since version 2.16 it's a a mirror release of a fork WinMerge JP.įeatures Visual differencing and merging of text files. With the xdocdiff-Plugin you even can compare Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and some more files.

WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. I should probably fork out for my own BY licence, but I prefer whining on forums.WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. One of them, WinMerge I think, had a “plugin” (a non-configurable dll no less) to do something with tab and comma delimited files, but enabling it didn’t do anything at all. In this case I wanted to diff some CSV files, and Beyond Compare gives a proper spreadsheet view of the diff keeping all the fields aligned, rather than just the raw text view which I could do using gnu diff or a lot of built-in abilities of most text editors. One even has annoying matching brackets that scroll the screen with you. All they are is useless gui wrappers around gnu diff or something like that. They’re all the exact same useless thing that do nothing more that the console-mode diff can’t do. I tried DiffMerge, WinMerge and Meld and hated all of them. It’s my works multi-user licence I was hoping to ‘extend’ :) And I tried it and it didn’t work :( I just resorted to using BC in trial mode for now. “A single user license covers one person using BC on any number of computers.”

Winmerge alternative