>> There are some things you can do to speed it up a bit:
>> (1) in the Options Dialog, on the "Detail Level" page, disable the "Multi-Line..."
>> This will probably be the biggest win, but looking at your data in the screenshot,
>> it may cause those large sections of rows of numbers to line-up a little differently.
The main advantage of DiffMerge over CompareIT the the intelligence in matching and comparing multiple lines, so this is one I will keep.
>> (2) on the same dialog page, set the "Analysis Detail Level" to "Lines Only".
>> This will get rid of the intra-line highlight and speed things up a lot. But
>> you probably won't like that because you won't be able to see what changed
>> within the lines.
Then I might as well go back 10 years to WinDiff
... no, this is definitiely not an option.
>> (3) create a Ruleset for your .RSM files and in the "Line Handling" page of the
>> Create Ruleset Dialog, turn off the "Ignore/Fold Case..." and "Ignore/Strip Whitespace..."
>> options. This won't do much, but sometimes every little bit helps.
I'll look into that.
>> WRT to the whole line being bolded and underlined. Yes, the "apply change" command
>> replace the entire content of the version on the right with the entire content of the
>> version on the left. Rather than just replacing the few characters that are different.
>> So, the entire line/chunk is bolded/underlined. Sorry. I'll log a feature request to
>> have it do it the other way.
Yes, just seeing the few characters would be easier to see what I've done to the line, at the moment I can't see what I've done.
>> WRT to the bold messing up column alignment. You might try a different font.
>> See the "File Windows" page of the Options Dialog. Be sure that a fixed-width
>> font is selected. If that doesn't help, select the bold version of the font; then everything
>> will show up bolded and it should line up right. (This is not the greatest solution, but it
>> might be helpful until I can get another release out.) I'll log a feature request to make
>> bold/underline optional.
I always use Lucida Console which is fixed width, but annoyingly the bold version doesn't keep the same fixed width as the unbold version. Do you know of another fixed font that does?
>> WRT the color bar on the left. The thin black lines should track the visible portion only.
>> If you click and drag in the color bar, do the windows scroll and the black bars move with
>> the mouse? Perhaps a screen shot of what you're seeing would help.
See attached. The file is very big (see scroll bar on the right). But the black lines on the left on either side of the red difference bar are continuous from the top of the display to bottom.
