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ExamDiff Pro Wish List

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Bold items are likely to appear in the next version.

Red items are currently available using plug-ins. Their built-in implementation is unlikely.

#   Feature Votes
1.   Compare Word and Excel files
2.   Intelligently compare XML files
3.   Understand the start and end of C/C++ (or other language) functions, so compare function by function rather than just line by line
4.   Compare files/folders on FTP or SSH servers
5.   Option to switch between list views and collapsible/expandable tree views in recursive directory comparison
6.   Compare Office 2007 Word and Excel files
7.   Integrate with version control systems allowing to compare files with their versions and perform version control operations from ExamDiff Pro
8.   Portable version
9.   Create directory comparison HTML diff report with links to file comparison HTML diff reports
10.   Unix version
11.   Binary file editing
12.   Compare file lists (text files that contain file paths in each line)
13.   Patch (.exe) generator
14.   Option to save file differences as "unified diffs" (like diff -U in the GNU diff)
15.   Compare archives as directories
16.   Support other languages for the user interface
17.   Implement ExamDiff Pro as a tabbed MDI application
18.   Option to reuse running instance of ExamDiff Pro
19.   2-way merge in a separate pane
20.   Ability to select fragments in both files and compare only them, in the context of the rest of the files
21.   Implement fast binary comparison mode (byte-by-byte comparison)
22.   Have a distinct color for ignores, when "Ignore the ignores" is turned on
23.   Allow to toggle files/directories, and Go Up One Level/Drill Down in directory comparison without re-comparison (using cached diff results)
24.   Option to use MD5 instead of CRC32
25.   Use scale factor when printing reports
26.   Selective Line Editing like in KEDIT
27.   Add support for ExamDiff Pro as an XP boot CD plug-in for Bart's PE Builder (details at http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/)
28.   Ability to ignore text fragments selected in file comparison panes
29.   Run an external program on two selected files
30.   Ability to save/restore manual synchronization links to/from an external file
31.   Compare tab/comma-separated files column by column with the ability to ignore columns (referred to by their numbers)
32.   Command to match braces in file comparison editor
33.   Ability to set different detail levels for the main file comparison panes and the line inspector.
34.   Ability to place manual synchronization links between lines instead of on lines
35.   Perform multi-line matching where one line can be matched to multiple lines while ignoring linebreaks
36.   Upon launching matched file comparison from directory comparison, navigate through matched file pairs using Next and Previous commands
37.   Ability to compare numbers as numbers and ignore small differences
38.   Have full screen mode, showing just the 2 files/directories -- but with keyboard accelerators still working (Next Diff etc.)
39.   Option to process files, whose content matches a regular expression, during directory comparison
40.   Logging of changes in the file comparison differences in the Diff combo box during the merging procedure, like "Resolved - copied missing text from File2 to File1", "Replaced Block in File2 with block from File1", "Deleted Block in File2"
41.   Option to perform byte-by-byte comparison of files larger than certain size
42.   Add Line Inspector in the three-way diff and merge
43.   Diff statistics such as lines deleted, added, changed per file accumulated per folder
44.   Allow the following: "examdiff file1.c *.bak" (meaning "examdiff file1.c file1.bak")
45.   Ability to output a comment (in specific programming languages) when you merge changes. Comments would include date, name, reason etc.
46.   Ability to launch multiple file comparison sessions, one for each selected file, from directory comparison.
47.   Provide an easier means of identifying columns to ignore (e.g. via mouse drag) instead of typing in before/after column numbers in options
48.   Option to use a user-defined color for nonexistent (padding) lines)
49.   "Virtual space" for file editing (allow cursor position past End of Line in Edit Mode)
50.   Ability to flatten subdirectories in directory comparison so that relative paths are ignored
51.   Option to convert new tabs to spaces
52.   Offer "Apply" button on the Options dialog
53.   Compare database fields using ODBC links to SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
54.   Ability to replace all left/right file differences by a click of a button.
55.   Ability to customize ExamDiff Pro title bar text
56.   Show the line length in text files (in the status bar or to the left -- next to the line number)
57.   Ability to find duplicate files
58.   Ability to define 'Double-click on the line number' behavior (possible choice: copy the line to the opposite file)
59.   Ability to concurrently search in both panes and find the first match in either one (from the current "matched" line)
60.   Ability to disable file renaming in directory comparison
61.   Ability to display more columns in directory comparison views (similar to Windows Explorer)
62.   Ability to freeze columns in directory comparison panes
63.   Ability to filter directory views by file attributes
64.   Ability to associate file extensions with named sessions; auto-invoke session if compared files have same extensions
65.   Ability to hide the output pane in 3-way merging
66.   Ability to associate file extensions with Ignore options
67.   Ability to ignore substitution strings e.g. R.D.S. is same as RDS
68.   When printing out a diff report, indicate on each page that a change occurred
69.   Ability to save differences of files as separate files and also to save common part as separate file
70.   Copy directory but not its contents (so you can quickly dive deeper and copy only the subdirectories you want)
71.   Synchronize Directories needs an option to delete files in the destination folder if they are not present in the source folder
72.   "Add Block and Comment Out Existing Block" option with support for multiple programming languages
73.   Show number of unchanged lines in the status bar of directory comparison (in full file comparison mode)
74.   Option to force comparisons (from directory comparison and Explorer context menu) with the older file/directory as first
75.   Option to not treat CR character as a linebreak
76.   Reuse a print job when file diff reports are printed along with the directory diff report
77.   Option to have items for identical sections in the top combo box (currently only items for differences are added)
78.   Commands to use all or remaining L/C/R blocks during merging
79.   Command to navigate to the next real line, jumping over padded lines
80.   Add more file attributes to the supported ones (RHSA) in directory comparison views
81.   Add a second splitter to allow viewing different sections of a file/directory in the comparison window
82.   Ability to specify language of a file, with grammatical rules (e.g. parts of words for word wrap) affected by the language
83.   Add the manual synchronization feature to binary comparisons
84.   Allow combining L/C/R blocks in any order during merging
85.   Command line options /dt1:name, /dt2:name, /dt3:name (t for tag) to allow replacing "Theirs", "Base", and "Yours" labels in merging
86.   Command line option to use L/C/R blocks by default if a conflict occurs during merging
87.   Command line option to output only comparison statistics
88.   Automated file synchronization