[New Plugin] ComparePlus v1.0.0

Fruchtzwerg94

Awesome!
For all of you who are looking for a link to the repo, like me, here it is: pnedev/comparePlus.

Vitalii Dovgan

@pnedev
Thank you for the release!
And I have a feature request :)
This plugin adds 10 toolbar buttons. Could you add an option (or options) to select whether we want any button on the toolbar or, as an enhanced version, to specify which exact buttons we want or do not want on the toolbar? For example:

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|  [ ] Show Toolbar buttons         |
|      [ ] Set as First to Compare  |
|      [ ] Compare                  |
|      [ ] Compare Selections       |
|      [ ] Clear Active Compare     |
|      ...                          |
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Alan Kilborn

@Vitalii-Dovgan said in [New Plugin] ComparePlus v1.0.0:

This plugin adds 10 toolbar buttons.

Wow, 10 toolbar buttons seems excessive. Maybe this would have been better served by having a dedicated panel for this plugin, similar in base concept to the panel in the Changed Lines plugin.

Yaron

@Vitalii-Dovgan,

Any reason not to use the CustomizeToolbar plugin?
IMO it’s a must-have plugin regardless of ComparePlus.

pnedev

@Vitalii-Dovgan ,

I’ll consider your suggestion, thanks!

BR

Alan Kilborn

@Michael-Vincent said in [New Plugin] ComparePlus v1.0.0:

Command line usage? Are you serious!?!?! OMG, it works!

I’m not able to get command-line use working.
I presume that it is supposed to load the files and then start the compare on them, but that’s just a presumption on how I think it should work; I haven’t seen anything that says that.

It loads the files, but doesn’t start the compare. The plugin itself loaded fine as I can see the toolbar buttons and I can start the compare manually, but…

I think I’m doing it correctly:

Anyone have any hints for me?

Bas de Reuver

I use the old Notepad++ Compare plug-in almost daily. So it’s great news that you’re continuing its development and keeping it active and up-to-date.

I’ve seen other useful software tools slowly disappear due to software rot, so even if you hadn’t added new features I think it’s great just for the maintenance of such a useful utility 👍

pnedev

@Alan-Kilborn ,

Try removing the quotes from compare - run it like that:

--pluginMessage=compare

Sorry for the misleading info in the description, my bad.

Vitalii Dovgan

@Yaron said in [New Plugin] ComparePlus v1.0.0:

@Vitalii-Dovgan,

Any reason not to use the CustomizeToolbar plugin?
IMO it’s a must-have plugin regardless of ComparePlus.

The CustomizeToolbar has two tiny issues which are actually not issues for most of people but are issues for me. First, CustomizeToolbar makes Notepad++'s toolbar to blink (repaint) during start-up. Second, CustomizeToolbar slows down Notepad++'s startup for almost a second (for a cold start). As I wrote, these are not issues for most of the people, but I’m very sensitive to such things.

guy038

Hello, @pnedev and All,

Ah… OK !. So the correct syntax is :

...\notepad++ -pluginMessage=compare Old_file.txt New_file.txt

Howewer, we have to consider different cases. Let’s consider a session with two files change.log and copy.log ( with a few changes compared to change.log) and some other tabs, too :

The change.log and copy.log tabs exist, both, in current N++ session AND the copy.log tab comes next to the change.log tab. After closing N++ :

=> The CMD command ...\notepad++ -pluginMessage=compare change.log copy.log works correctly