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Case sensitive comparison

Open luke6464 opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, is it possible to highlight as differences files and folders that have names that differ in uppercase or lowercase letters? What is the setting to highlight these differences in color in the results report? Thank you

luke6464 avatar Oct 01 '23 14:10 luke6464

Unfortunately, WinMerge cannot highlight case differences in the folder comparison window.

sdottaka avatar Oct 01 '23 23:10 sdottaka

I saw that it actually highlights them in a barely visible way... when it detects for example that 2 folders have names that differ in case, it displays the directory as in the following example: Folder Name Uppercase | lowercase folder name use a "|" to highlight this difference also in the subfolders but unfortunately as they are not highlighted in color you have to search for them manually by browsing all the subdirectories. Would it be possible to optionally highlight this by inserting the activateable option in future versions? It shouldn't be difficult to do this since the algorithm already detects these differences... See attached screenshots. This would be a fantastic feature that would complement WinMerge! Thank you screenshot_20231002_113500

luke6464 avatar Oct 02 '23 09:10 luke6464