see an item's subfolder, look at its path in the Compare result
column. Folders that exist on only one side are displayed if one of
the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu options, <guimenuitem>Show Left
- Unique Files</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Show Left Unique
+ Unique Files</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Show Middle Unique Files
+ </guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Show Right Unique
Files</guimenuitem>, is enabled.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<secondary>Folder Compare window</secondary>
</indexterm></title>
- <para>In the Compare Folders window, files and folders are compared and
+ <para>In the Folder Compare window, files and folders are compared and
divided into several categories. In each row, the category is clearly
identified in the left column with one of these icons:</para>
<member><inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject>
+ <imagedata contentwidth="16" fileref="screenshots/mfolder.png"
+ format="PNG" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject> Middle-only folders</member>
+
+ <member><inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
<imagedata contentwidth="16" fileref="screenshots/rfolder.png"
format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<member><inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject>
+ <imagedata contentwidth="16" fileref="screenshots/mfile.png"
+ format="PNG" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject> Middle-only files</member>
+
+ <member><inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
<imagedata contentwidth="16" fileref="screenshots/rfile.png"
format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <para>In the Folder Compare window with three folders, the
+ <guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem> item has a submenu with nine
+ shortcuts:</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata contentwidth="410"
+ fileref="screenshots/ctx_menu_copy2.png" format="PNG" />
+ </imageobject>
+
+ <textobject>
+ <phrase>Folder Compare window Copy context menu</phrase>
+ </textobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
</section>
<section>
</indexterm></title>
<para>You can use the <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> context menu item
- to delete selected items in either or both sides. Like other file
+ to delete selected items in either or all sides. Like other file
operations, <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> has a submenu with
- <guimenuitem>Left</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Right</guimenuitem>, and
- <guimenuitem>Both</guimenuitem> shortcuts.</para>
+ <guimenuitem>Left</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Middle</guimenuitem>,
+ <guimenuitem>Right</guimenuitem>, and <guimenuitem>All</guimenuitem>
+ shortcuts.</para>
<warning>
<para>We highly recommend that you keep the <guilabel>Send deleted files
<para>To rename a file or folder, choose <guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem>
in its context menu or press <keycap>F2</keycap>. Then change the name in
- the edit box and press <keycap>Return</keycap>, or press
+ the edit box and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>, or press
<keycap>Esc</keycap> to cancel. You can only rename a single file or
folder. Note that renaming changes items in both sides: it is not
currently possible to rename an item on just one side.</para>
<secondary>in Folder Compare window</secondary>
</indexterm></title>
- <para>In the context menu, you can use either <guimenuitem>Open
- Left</guimenuitem> and <guimenuitem>Open Right</guimenuitem>, depending on
- which side you want to operate on. Each <guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem>
- menu item has a submenu with these shortcuts:</para>
+ <para>In the context menu, you can use <guimenuitem>Open
+ Left</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Open Middle</guimenuitem> or
+ <guimenuitem>Open Right</guimenuitem>, depending on which side you want to
+ operate on. Each <guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem> menu item has a submenu
+ with these shortcuts:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>With Registered Application</guimenuitem></term>
+ <term>With Registered Application</term>
<listitem>
<para>Opens the file with the application (if any) that is
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>With...</guimenuitem></term>
+ <term>With...</term>
<listitem>
<para>Opens the <guilabel>Open With</guilabel> dialog, where you can
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Left Read-only</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>, <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+
+ <guimenuitem>Middle Read-only</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice> or <menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
protected side is write-protected. Similarly, you cannot copy a file from
the unprotected side to the protected side.</para>
- <para>The <guilabel>RO</guilabel> code in the left or right side's pane in
+ <para>The <guilabel>RO</guilabel> code in the left side's, middle or right side's pane in
the status bar (near the bottom right of the window) indicates that the
side is currently read-only.</para>
</section>
7-Zip plugin.</para>
</note>
- <para>The Zip menu item has a submenu with four shortcuts:</para>
+ <para>The <guimenu>Zip</guimenu> menu item has a submenu with five shortcuts:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>Middle</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Adds middle files and folders recursively to the archive
+ file</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Right</term>
<listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>All</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Adds files and folders recursively from all sides to the
+ archive file. Because the filenames are same, they are added to
+ different subfolders, named <filename
+ class="directory">Original</filename> and <filename
+ class="directory">Altered</filename>, inside the archive: left-side
+ files are put to <filename class="directory">Original</filename>,
+ and right-side files are put into <filename
+ class="directory">Altered</filename>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Differences</term>
<listitem>
</indexterm></title>
<para>This section discusses ways to browse folders that are listed in a
- Compare Folder window. When you browse a folder, you perform a completely
+ Folder Compare window. When you browse a folder, you perform a completely
new compare operation. Its result overwrites the current result in the
window.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para><guimenuitem>Show Middle Unique Items</guimenuitem>: Files and
+ directories present only in the middle</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para><guimenuitem>Show Right Unique Items</guimenuitem>: Files and
directories present only in right side</para>
</listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left Date</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Date</guilabel>:
- Modification dates of item in each side. The newer of the two dates
- (or the date for any unique item) is prefixed with an asterisk ( *
- ).</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left Date</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle
+ Date</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Date</guilabel>: Modification dates
+ of item in each side. The newer of the two dates (or the date for any
+ unique item) is prefixed with an asterisk ( * ).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left Attributes</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right
- Attributes</guilabel>: Shows file attributes.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left Attributes</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle
+ Attributes</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Attributes</guilabel>: Shows
+ file attributes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left Creation Time</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right
- Creation Time</guilabel>: Item creation time.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left Creation Time</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle
+ Creation Time</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Creation Time</guilabel>:
+ Item creation time.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left Encoding</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right
- Encoding</guilabel>: File encoding. Shows the codepage number for ANSI
- files and Unicode encoding for Unicode files.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left Encoding</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle
+ Encoding</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Encoding</guilabel>: File
+ encoding. Shows the codepage number for ANSI files and Unicode
+ encoding for Unicode files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left File Version</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right File
- Version</guilabel>: Version number from the file, if present. Note
- that the version is read only for some binary file types known to
- usually have a version resource.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left File Version</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle File
+ Version</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right File Version</guilabel>: Version
+ number from the file, if present. Note that the version is read only
+ for some binary file types known to usually have a version
+ resource.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left Size</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Size</guilabel>:
- File size in bytes.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left Size</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle
+ Size</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Size</guilabel>: File size in
+ bytes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left Size (Short)</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Size
- (Short)</guilabel>: Shorter versions of file sizes, rounded to KB, MB,
- or GB.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left Size (Short)</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle Size
+ (Short)</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right Size (Short)</guilabel>: Shorter
+ versions of file sizes, rounded to KB, MB, or GB.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Left EOL</guilabel>, <guilabel>Right EOL</guilabel>:
- Shows the EOL (linefeed) style of files.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Left EOL</guilabel>, <guilabel>Middle EOL</guilabel>,
+ <guilabel>Right EOL</guilabel>: Shows the EOL (linefeed) style of
+ files.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
context menu.</para>
<para>If the selection occurs on both sides, you can choose either the
- <guimenu>Left shell menu</guimenu> or <guimenu>Right shell menu</guimenu>;
- if the item occurs only on one side, only that side's shell menu is
- available.</para>
+ <guimenu>Left shell menu</guimenu> or <guimenu>Right shell menu</guimenu>.
+ If the selection occurs on all sides, you can choose the
+ <guimenu>Left shell menu</guimenu>, <guimenu>Middle shell menu</guimenu> or
+ <guimenu>Right shell menu</guimenu>. If the item occurs only on one side,
+ only that side's shell menu is available.</para>
<caution>
<para>Please consider that shell menu commands run entirely outside of
<listitem>
<para><option>Enabled</option> (default): The Select Files or Folders
dialog checks both paths as you enter them. The
- <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button remains disabled until both paths are
+ <guibutton>Compare</guibutton> button remains disabled until both paths are
validated. Note that this checking can cause some delay.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><option>Disabled</option>: The <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button
+ <para><option>Disabled</option>: The <guibutton>Compare</guibutton> button
in the Select Files or Folders dialog is always enabled, and attempts
to open any paths you specify. Since there is no delay during
validation, this can speed up the selection of paths. However, if the
</section>
<section>
- <title>Close "Select Files or Folders" Dialog on clicking OK button<indexterm>
+ <title>Close "Select Files or Folders" Dialog on clicking Compare button<indexterm>
<primary>Select Files or Folders dialog</primary>
</indexterm></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><option>Disabled</option> (default): When you click <guibutton>Compare</guibutton> button, the Select File or Folder dialog will remain open instead of closing.</para>
+ <para><option>Disabled</option> (default): When you click <guibutton>Compare</guibutton> button, the Select File or Folders dialog will remain open instead of closing.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><option>Enabled</option> (default): WinMerge doing a reqursive comparing and also includes subfolders.</para>
+ <para><option>Enabled</option> (default): WinMerge doing a recursive comparing and also includes subfolders.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
then click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to load the new color in the
box.</para>
- <para>At any time, you can click <guibutton>Defaults</guibutton> to reload
- the installed color scheme.</para>
+ <para>To revert to the default colors of a scheme, choose a different scheme
+ and return to the modified scheme.</para>
</section>
<section id="Configuration_differencescolors">
elements that are recognized, and enables you to change their text color and
weight.</para>
- <para>At any time, you can click <guibutton>Defaults</guibutton> to reload
- the installed color scheme.</para>
+ <para>To revert to the default colors of a scheme, choose a different scheme
+ and return to the modified scheme.</para>
</section>
<section id="Configuration_textcolors">
then click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to load the new color in the
box.</para>
- <para>At any time, you can click <guibutton>Defaults</guibutton> to reload
- the installed color scheme.</para>
+ <para>To revert to the default colors of a scheme, choose a different scheme
+ and return to the modified scheme.</para>
</section>
<section id="Configuration_archive">