I use Beyond Compare (version 3.1.10) to compare different versions of Delphi Form Files, but I don't want to see differences concerning ExplicitTop, ExplicitLeft, ExplicitHeight and ExplicitWidth.
Details:
These lines will always begin with a number of whitespace characters, then "ExplicitXXX = " and a number. Older versions of Delphi didn't have these lines, so I want to ignore differences where these lines are added to the newest version, and I also want to ignore differences where the number has changed.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Edit:
Duplicate (more or less) of:
How do I configure BeyondCompare to ignore SCM replaced text in comments?
I don't use Beyond Compare, but if you want to have newer versions of Delphi stop adding the (IMO useless) Explicit*
properties, you can use Andreas Hausladen's DDevExtensions
In my case (C#), I wanted to ignore the entire line which contained namespaces (and thus, using's) which I changed.
(Referenced Walkthrough - Ignore entire line if text exist in line
ie.
namespace INSERT.NAMESPACE.HERE
changed to
namespace INSERT.NAMESPACE.HERE.NEW
To do that
In step 5. of Craig's solution, change the Text Matching to
" .\*INSERT.NAMESPACE.HERE.\* "
(include the quotes)
That's it.
Craig Peterson's answer is correct.
N.B. However! The tab 'importance' is not always visible from Session/Session-settings. Always, from inside a Folder list view, it will not be there. It seems there are certain filetypes that do not have it either, though I'm less clear on that. BC has so many options and plugins I bet there is a workaround, but for me I have been ok so far.
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