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    • Alison ChaseA
      Alison Chase
      last edited by

      Previous versions appear to have had this capability. Can’t find any mention of it now. How can one compare two versions of a file and have the differences highlighted? thanks!

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones
        last edited by

        It’s the Compare Plugin, currently at v2.0.0, which is available thru the Plugin Manager, or from the download link in this post from the developer.

        Plugins > Compare is the menu, and Plugins > Compare > Compare will actually perform the comparison. I’m not sure, but I think it may have changed its keyboard shortcuts from the old v1.5.5 – if so, that might explain why you couldn’t find it… but since I never memorized the old shortcuts, I don’t know for sure. The toolbar icons look like the following, where I’ve selected the “Compare” button, which actually performs the comparison:
        (I have selected Settings > Preferences > General > Toolbar > ☑ Standard icons; if your settings are different, the icons may appear different as well)

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        • pnedevP
          pnedev
          last edited by

          Hi,

          The default shortcut for Compare command in v2.0.0 is Ctrl-Alt-C.
          In previous versions it used to be Alt-D but since Alt-something is the Windows way to access the menu the shortcut was changed.

          BR

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          • Peter HudsonP
            Peter Hudson
            last edited by

            I tried installing the compare plug-in and after auto-restart the compare plug-in was still not there. So next time I did a manual restart and it worked.

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