I know Kdiff3 can do diff from clipboard but only 2-way.
Is there a tool that allow me copy&paste three text and compare it? Now I have to create three files with the text I copied and compare them. After I delete them.
Can't be online tool.
You can create a 3-way diff using Meld from the clipboard without writing to files by creating a new file comparison, checking the "3-way comparison" option, and choosing "Blank comparison". Then simply paste in the three items.
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I was wondering if there was any way to repalce multiple line in multiple files at the same time?
I know under edit->Find in Files
this will show all the desires lines in all the files, however you have to raeplce them one by one, anyone way to just like REPLACE ALL?
Open the folder containing the files wished to be edited via Visual
Studio Code. If not exist, create a folder and fill up it with the files.
At the top-menu bar Edit - Replace in Files or (On Windows Ctrl + ⇧ + H, On Mac, ⌘ + ⇧ + H).
You can also Search and Replace across files. Expand the Search widget to display the Replace text box.
When you type text into the Replace text box, you will see a diff display of the pending changes. You can replace across all files from the Replace text box, replace all in one file or replace a single change.
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_search-across-files
At the current time this is not supported (read in the link at Common Questions)
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_common-questions
I suggest you to try with Notepad++
Replace in multiple files is supported in latest version of vscode 1.3.
I know about workspace settings. My issue is that workspace settings also apply to any files that are opened not in that workspace. Example:
"editor.formatOnSave": true // put this in some workspace settings.
open a file not in that workspace (maybe in a different project) in the same window. This happens when I type $ code ~/someFile.txt
When I save that file, it gets formatted when it shouldn't.
Any workarounds?
Specifically for saving a file without formatting, try new command for saving without formatting. Just added in v1.28.0:
The new command Save without Formatting
(workbench.action.files.saveWithoutFormatting) can be used to save a
file without triggering any of the save participants (for example,
formatters, remove trailing whitespace, final newline). The default
keybinding is Ctrl+K S. This is useful when editing files outside your
normal projects, which may have different formatting conventions.
I tried to select the word that want to replace for multiple times and it did not. Finally I had to close the eclipse and start it.**
Rename (Alt+Shift+R) is a refactoring option. E.g. this could be used to rename a class or a method without renaming classes/methods with the same name but in different packages/classes if it was selected.
To search replace words in Eclipse within a single file, the replace option is there in the Find/Replace dialog that shows when you press Ctrl+F.
To search replace across files, go to Search/Search (Ctrl+H), and look for the File Search tab at the top (you normally need to scroll the tabs to the left to see it). This will let you search across a range of files, and then replace those matches.
I am writing a little bit of documentation and code explanation. I would like to copy code from eclipse including line numbers, so that it becomes easier to reference the code in the text.
Is there any way to do this in eclipse or some other IDE, editor?
Since Eclipse 3.4 and bug 19602, you will print the line numbers if you have activated them on the Eclipse editor.
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Printing a source will give you:
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You can do it by printing a PDF of source file, then copying source with line numbers from the PDF document.
It works for me with eclipse PDT + CutePDF, it should also work with Acrobat PDF printer
Another not-so-clean work-around to achieve this. This is specific to the Subversive plug-in.
3 steps to follow:
Delete the piece of code you need to copy and save the source file.
Right click the file and chose option Team -> Create Patch.. and save it to a file, say copy.patch
Undo (Ctrl + Z) the changes to revert the deletion done in step 1 and save the source file again.
Open the patch file and use the contents.
This also includes the file-name (if desired) along with the line number and retains the indentation.
Good file comparison tools were already discussed to the pain, but my problem is more exotic. Is there any visual text comparison tool (like WinMerge) that would allow me easily do visual comparison on two sections within the same file?
I have multiple configurations within vcproj file and need to maintain them. It is a pain to do this manually -- splitting windows, scrolling character-by character. On top of that xml is very verbose and takes lots of screen real-estate. I cannot believe there is no tool to do automatic file section comparison, since this sounds like a very common problem.
Please, do not offer me to use property pages, I do not want more complexity, I want less. Splitting manually into files and then comparing them is also too medieval (I am doing this now anyways).
I use Beyond Compare (not free, but I think a shareware version is available). You can select the same file for left and right sides, then right-click the beginning of your section on each side and select "Align Manually". This would allow you to compare two sections of the same file relatively easily.
Overall, I highly recommend the product. I haven't tried version 3, which is what they currently have on their Web site, but version 2 is a fabulous tool. A+
Emacs Ediff.
I use UltraEdit for most of my text editing and they have a product called UltraCompare that does a visual compare.
Update by Mofi
UltraCompare Professional supports also a comparison of text snippets in addition to entire files.
After starting UltraCompare, select Text Compare in menu Mode if not already selected. Select in text editor the first text block which should be compared, press Ctrl+C, switch back to UC and paste with Ctrl+V the block into left text area pane. Switch again to text editor, select the other block in same file, press Ctrl+C, switch back to UC, click into right pane and paste the block with Ctrl+V. The two blocks are immediately compared and the differences are displayed.
Such a text snippet comparison for two blocks in same file can be started also directly from within UltraEdit. Select the first block in file, press Ctrl+C, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+A to copy, paste and reselect this block in a new file. Select the second block in file. Execute command Compare from menu File in UltraEdit with option Compare selected text automatically being enabled and click on button Compare. UC Professional is started with just the 2 selected blocks for comparison.
You can use Meld to do this
Open up meld without specifying file names
Meld with prompt which type of comparison you want. Choose file comparison
Meld will present the the icon to select the file names. Below that it will prompt for a Blank comparison. Choose that.
In the file comparison window, paste the sections of the file you want to compare.