Re: Feature request: Be able to ignore common differences in directory compares

["Kiger,William S. (BIDMC - Radiation Oncology)" <wkiger bidmc harvard edu>]

Doug,

Actually, you can already do this--Meld has text filters for ignoring
differences in text that match Python regular expressions.  Look at the
menu Meld -> Preferences and then the Text Filters tab.  Constructing a
regular expressions to match version numbers or copyright dates should
be relatively straightforward.

Best wishes,

Stead

On 8/30/2017 9:56 PM, Doug wrote:
> Hi!  Love meld!
>
> When comparing large directory trees (e.g. old vs new software source
> distributions) it would be nice to be able to ignore all the files whose
> only difference is 'version 1.2' vs '1.3', or 'copyright 2016' vs
> '2017', etc. Or mark them differently in the tree view.
>
> Well, I think it's a brilliant idea :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
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