 | Welcome to Compare It! |
 | About Compare It! |
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| Installing and Removing Compare It! |
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| What's New in This release? |
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| Quick Start |
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| User Interface Basics |
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| Application Window Illustration |
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| Using Compare It! |
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| Comparing files |
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| Merging Files |
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| Editing Files |
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| Setting Options |
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| General |
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| File Filters |
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| Comparison |
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| Advanced Comparison |
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| Editor |
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| Colors |
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| Language |
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| Keyboard |
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| Converters |
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| Viewers |
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| Printing and Reporting |
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| Print options |
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| Print Options: Margins |
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| Print Options: Advanced |
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| Comparison report |
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| Comparison statistics |
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| Keyboard Shortcuts, Toolbar Buttons, Menu Commands |
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| Advanced Functions |
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| Adding Shortcuts to External Applications |
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| Adaptive comparison |
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| Auto Backup |
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| Automatch rules |
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| Command Line Usage |
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| Configuration File |
 | Changes Only Mode |
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| Custom Syntax Files |
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| Defining Column Ranges |
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| Enhanced Open File |
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| File lists support |
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| Folders comparison |
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| Ignore Difference |
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| Manual Matching |
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| Merged Report |
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| Moved Sections |
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| Partial matching |
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| Profiles |
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| Result File Support |
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| Separate |
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| Unicode Support |
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| Using Compare It! with File Manager |
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| Using fixed/alternative font |
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| Using Regular Expressions |
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| Using RegExps substrings |
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| Word files comparison |
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| Excel files comparison |
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| Other file formats support |
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| Zip File Support |
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| General Information |
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| What is Shareware? |
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| How To Register |
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| Warranty and License |
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| Future Releases |
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| Other Products |
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| Frequently Asked Questions |
 | Updates and Support |
| Adaptive line comparison |
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What is Adaptive Line Comparison?
This is new line comparison algorithm, designed to simplify reading of changed lines. We call it "adaptive", since it can sacrifice precision to make result more readable.
How could it help me?
Here are just few examples where you could see advantages of adaptive comparison:
- Using word limits:
Adaptive Standard Field is NULL Field is NULL Field is NOT NULL Field is NOT NULL - Repeating sequences:
Adaptive Standard 00001000 10101010 00001000 10101010 00010000 10100110 00010000 10100110 - Using syntax information (C++ in this case):
Adaptive Standard MyFunc(A[1]); MyFunc(A[1]); MyFunc(A[2], A[1]); MyFunc(A[2], A[1]);
OK, so why is it optional?
Unfortunately, adaptive comparison does not suit all users - during beta-testing we have
found that some people like its results, while others don't. In most cases standard comparison
is better for plain text; on other hand programmers/web developers find adaptive algorithm
very useful for source code comparison. So we decided to make this feature optional, so more people could test it.
We hope your feedback will help us to find best application for adaptive comparison, which should become smarter in future. If you have any thoughts about it, do you like it or not, let us know your opinion!
How do I toggle it?
You can switch adaptive comparison ON and OFF in Comparison options page.
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