Re: Enhancement request

Violaine,

 This is good to know.  Can an option be added to pop up a selection screen
for each time the compare is run?  Sometimes I want a strict comparison,
other times I want a looser one, on a member by member basis.  The initial
defaults can be taken from the current values initially, but should be
saved on a per session basis.

 For example:  When I initially start a maintenance project that might have
two versions of a program I would want a strict comparison of both members.
Once I start working on it I will probably add comments and indentation. 
At that point, just to check if I missed anything, I would want a looser
comparison - ignoring comments and white space.

 Is there a way to change the compare results colors from the default
yellow and pink?  That could also be added.

 Thanks.

 -mark

Original Message:
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From: Violaine Batthish batthish@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:48:00 -0400
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Enhancement request


Hi Mark,

Under Windows->Preferences->LPEX Editor->Compare
You will find the following options:
- Ignore Case
- Ignore leading/trailing blanks
- Ignore all blanks
- Ignore sequence numbers
- Ignore comments
and there is an option for restricting columns when comparing.


I will add your request for search and for comparing more than 2 members.

thanks,

Violaine Batthish
WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab



wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/11/2006 10:36:26 AM:

> Violaine,
>
>  I would like to add to that request.  The compare should allow things
like
> ignoring comments, ignoring whitespace differences, ignoring case
> differences (except within quotes, although that may be a little too
> sophisticated - but I can dream, right?)
>
>  Allowing the search to find text (exclusively and in tandem) in the
> compared-to source (e.g. the one in pink) would be very helpful.
>
>  Can more than 2 members be compared at once?
>
>  -mark