Re: Compares in LPEX editor - again

Jeff

Try having a editor window open for a source member. Then go to the Edit
menu and click on the "Compare to a file..." item - this has the red and
yellow stuff.

There is even a button on the toolbar for this - the heavy "delta"
symbol in the group to the right of the macro buttons on the toolbar.

It's not a side-by-side comparison - and the "next change" button won't
find an addition - but the addition IS there in one of the colors -
yellow, I think.

I just tried it - it worked.

HTH
Vern

On 1/31/2014 2:52 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

All,

I want to revisit compares. As I've stated before I prefer the code400
editor for compares. The nice red and yellow backgrounds really

highlight

differences.

In contrast, when I highlight 2 members and say "compare with each

other" I

get nothing but gray on white. Because of the way whitespace is handled,
virtually every line is considered a "change." This is absurd.

In looking at Window/Preferences/LPEX editor/Appearance, I see this nifty
display where "Compare added" lines are highlighted in yellow and

"Compare

deleted" lines are highlighted in red. Gee, that looks almost like the
code400 editor. So why, when I do a compare, do I not see any colors
whatsoever?

The iSphere compare editor is somewhat better, but everything is still

gray

and white.

I must be missing something so basic and fundamental within RDi that I

need

to be beaten with a stick.

Rant mode off.

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