Option to ignore multiple lines when comparing

[johnanson]

Thank you very much for the Notepad++ Compare plugin. For me it's the most useful Notepad++ plugin.

I would like an option to specify lines that are skipped when navigating through the differences between 2 files with the keyboard shortcuts (Alt-PageUp/Down)

Why: I use Notepad++ to compare FortiGate configuration export files. These router export files include several encrypted secrets which change every time the configuration is exported, and are "noise" when looking to see what lines have changed.

If you are willing to implement this, it could be done by allowing a regular expression to specify lines that should be excluded from highlighting as different and/or landing on when navigating. eg in my use case above, I'd like to exclude lines matching "^\s*set password ENC"

Thanks, John

[Yaron10]

Hello John,

Pavel Nedev (CP developer) is currently away and should be back next week. I'm sure you'll get a reply as soon as he can.

Best regards.

[pnedev]

Hello @johnanson ,

That sounds like a useful feature. Would you like just to exclude the regular expression matches from navigation commands or from the whole compare process (this includes the highlighting as well)?

Greetings @Yaron10 ,

Thank you.

BR

[Yaron10]

:+1:

[johnanson]

Hi Pavel

1. In my use case, I'm not interested in any highlighting for the encrypted strings that change each time I export the configuration.
2. It would be helpful if there was an indicator to remind users when a filter for highlighting/navigating differences is active.
3. I've noticed that some of the encrypted keys are multi-line (see below).

These also change with every export, and are noise when comparing files.

Having an option to allow the regular expression to include newline characters could allow for this. eg for the one and two line encrypted keys below, a regular expression (with ". matches newline ticked) like this finds both cases in Notepad++ : ^\sset password ENC.?\n|^\sset private-key.?END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY.*?\n

Thanks again for the great plugin.

Regards, John

One line key: set password ENC WTLIMzeZ/nHGb4iWfl7A1fySSQExxxxxxxxxxxxxxcgEJ4Ra1mM8Cx2kVaQyLEfmfdfNRfNT8DR51eh+Yp2Pr4jEV/QA5yqeAPmQtOljIDQnROCKWM/+5HhbCWU/ivC7KX1hPBloj/EzbWuBWIVyq3JdUlptaK+2y0X/djxy/nLZuZC5n1jFxBOQj8gRKdO8bWRaqw==

Multi-line key: set private-key "-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY----- MIIFDjBABgkqhkixxxxxxxxxxzAbBgkqhkiG9w0BBQwwDgQIkc00P154J8gCAggA MBQGCCqGSIb3DQMxxxxxxxxxx36cVASCBMj7yy/xvMhAz3s9ZG49sKbdn6istLhn 0oEmagtS1WBMXulxxxxxxxxxxKyXTn3qL6f/QYDoJV+Jawa4bi2uhKxalVf+uMku HoEg0iWR2s5YWkbxxxxxxxxxxFm/D4crn2cVnnEiwcNPU5FnvZz8iTEmLaGg0jad 1qcg+PRnU5tDN4pxxxxxxxxxxZ4KfX+VaSc7DyzMxPTUVZPUAJN/tHV2xzfXZEuR I9EO89guEV8f2pixxxxxxxxxxNXEClZKgW1IVu+Y95p1lA3uaeEGuWLQ3HA4MzJa YZBh3KqLEgqjqbSxxxxxxxxxx3AS7qUfXLKPNAiZK+ckW0OopeDPqbkMo/2AfRWl 9u0ZAxL2s4EzcKbxxxxxxxxxxUe8mQhGFbG1FBJv2jDPu3kDrhTIy2dMLOf4igLd DSNaPTRd/SpduTfxxxxxxxxxxvd6dmh+7oSqMb+oPKGwMm6trCOZuB6rVL9X6V7e q9/EBBD8s8dNlfRxxxxxxxxxxMA/RsI8/wxirE20Et7pUPcTFJItHgnC9wf6dQDJ GwOcvR1l/mR7wCAxxxxxxxxxxZFFYKcCRukedigsJcJ7nAans/PaLPbMXJPExh9V npB6KDaKJ0X5GDvxxxxxxxxxxp1sjVSYa7/BlL2PXdOcvbOt4Nr6FRXyDo3a1kDp rs+tyIIyIsGuBJuxxxxxxxxxxvADpfftcWnszti4rJ4btTEO9NG1uhqBy3KhWDtg nzfo+Ukl9HPV+Q6xxxxxxxxxxi+Zya/a/uE4hdI0krdJdb4IfUSMCKCgjdhCm2+9 1ufZWDsERxE4/eJxxxxxxxxxxpWRp7VUv07Mi9fPMGkA+R4nCqHhtD1CU52qMXm2 2eyZ0BREOr4PnctxxxxxxxxxxXFSTdGKsULoIRUkgWck0ZnRkuicyx24YZl5R2IR bF2uP8ywBpT1i1oxxxxxxxxxxa94x35SbElmPZA78h47Vx/91RebCmQ7iEjJotxc gyopuzKAGU/SkWBxxxxxxxxxxta8gs9UGJD3POkHiyXjfPbOhxWltnDnu+/GYXXe gtZLC1EngPRYG5cxxxxxxxxxxsnblmOF14bcztG780kvQWrcFE1ru4S44c4Jvgv4 smqc23L7YcAI+AGxxxxxxxxxx3h1pWxNEZCvUhcRJ+4SkEZLwQi/HKM1PMfuhrwh YN6d34iBzOP3pqxxxxxxxxxxxkzMnaB0OglBNTvS2sPAHBgEi/Va02d0CWnFBiWt i0bnT5GwA6SChuhxxxxxxxxxxzXBEjtbZAkoQTuvlrgcOnllKiQOi1zdpPK/XVbe q/kTlGmh6Nf9KA/xxxxxxxxxxZAGxmwpmiP7nXz/CApmrE0r2CB3zNsSdPXSHWfR j2IWLvmntlOj4yAxxxxxxxxxxrwxRjz/3BSNkdtLxF29jTIKsEfhdx6KafAVaJcK 28/3sBGHyiMRrK9xxxxxxxxxxArLkLP8e5bQvIX7cuHkCNn61XBgeBiepsrVfKC9 QA4us/jl6hl18dZxxxxxxxxxxrt84d0I1c4XHwC+gzqqIXMkWUJNCyKsZXFYmxBF uAPCItukabIM1RUxxxxxxxxxxvxR0i0R2dNxOB8aYP0vvdU5PELMOcFy8D90ZoWR 8oc= -----END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----"

On Tue, 29 May 2018 at 03:04, Pavel Nedev [email protected] wrote:

Hello @johnanson https://github.com/johnanson ,

That sounds like a useful feature. Would you like just to exclude the regular expression matches from navigation commands or from the whole compare process (this includes the highlighting as well)?

Greetings @Yaron10 https://github.com/Yaron10 ,

Thank you.

BR

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[pnedev]

Hi John,

Thank you for elaborating. This is certainly very useful feature but it is hard to implement and it's going to take time. I don't think I'll be able to include it in the next plugin release. I'll see what I can do.

BR

[KeerealYo]

Hello Pavel . First I want to thank you for this amazing plugin and make some suggestion. I have read all above but still not sure if my suggestion is the same as johnanon's. Is it easier to force plugin to ignore some found differences by entering key-word(s) or value? For example, I have 2 similar files (1000+ strings) and most of differences are the same (they take about 70% of the whole file) and they are ok for me <Property name="Multiplier" value="1000" /> | <Property name="Multiplier" value="1" /> Its pain to find other rare differences from those above. So i'd like to have a button to ignore some compare results (ignore if string have "Multiplier" value="1000" in left and/or right field)

Thanks for reading and sorry for my English

[pnedev]

Hello @KeerealYo ,

Sorry for the late reply. That would be a good feature, yes. I'll consider implementing it sometime in the future but it will take time for sure. I can't promise anything. Thanks for writing.

BR

[pnedev]

Hello all,

In a month I will release the new ComparePlus plugin that will have advanced ignore feature which is actually a regex ignore but it is line-based. So every line is partially ignored based on the user supplied regex. I understand that it will not fully cover your use-cases but I hope it can at least be a partial match. I will keep this issue open as a reminder and in case I think of a way to easily implement a multi-line ignore.

BR