Hello,
Stefan Küng wrote:
> Randall Campbell wrote:
>> flag unprintable characters so that we can see that they are there.
>> Another very useful option would be able to display a hex view of
>> the file with the diffs highlighted. In this way, we could actually
>> see the hex character differences.
> Now that would be a huge new feature (hex view). What do others
> think? Would that be a feature that others might need too? How often
> would you need it really?
I use hex diffing very rarely, so it's OK for me to use another tool,
if I really need hex diffing.
But if you could teach TortoiseMerge to somehow display unprintable
characters and differences therein in a reasonable way, that would
be a great help. There are still people out there with weird text editors
like WordStar, that seem to handle text blockwise and pad the last
block with Ctrl-Z (0x1a). Together with other editors, this leads to
conflicts in the number of Ctrl-Zs at the end of the file which are
hard to resolve, since TMerge just shows differently coloured empty
lines.
From my point of view, it would be sufficient to display non printable
characters with the small rectangle that windows uses, when a character
is not available in a font. It shows you that there is something and
usually it's even enough for a quick glance at binary files - if you
are not familiar with the exact structure of a binary file, you usually
scan it for ASCII characters to see, what it contains, don't you?
Kind regards
Sven
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Received on Tue Aug 22 23:13:15 2006