jEdit Help Request

[Robo Magic Man]

I recently started using jEdit for my xml editing, and I love the option to display two files side by side, but I don't know how to easily find differences between files. Could someone please tell me how?

 

[TrueAce]

I've never used JEdit, but you could you the 'Find' feature, but i don't know if that's what your asking...

 

[Robo Magic Man]

Sorry, I should have worded it better. In jEdit, you can display 2 xml files, and then have the program highlight the lines that are only found in one out of the two files. Using this method, it's much easier to combine mods, because you can just copy and paste the highlighted parts and use it in your composite mod.

 

[RogerBacon]

I don't know jEdit but I have one called WinMerge ( http://winmerge.org ). It is designed to merge files so it shows the differences for easy merging. It also allwos manual cutting and pasting of text like any other editor. The problem with most programs like this though is that they don't do XML files that well because large blocks of the XML files are the same, since they follow the same schema. Still, it's great for showing the differences.

Roger Bacon

 

[Junuxx]

There's a diff plugin for jEdit here

You put the jar file and the directory from the download into your jEdit\jars directory.
Then you start jEdit, open two files, and do Plugins>JDiff Plugin>Dual diff.

Works like a charm for me.

 

[Robo Magic Man]

I tried installing the JDiff plugin, but when I tried to use it, an error popped up saying "A Beanshell Occured" and displayed a bunch of code. Obviously, I did someting wrong, but I don't understand what I did. WTH is a beanshell anyway?