Re: Compares in LPEX editor - again

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.