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   KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which
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   This document describes KDiff3-version 0.9.87.
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		      <a accesskey="n" href="introduction.html">Next</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="book" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="id2413298"></a>The <span class="application">KDiff3</span> Handbook</h1></div><div><div class="authorgroup"><p class="author"><span class="firstname">Joachim</span> <span class="surname">Eibl</span> <tt class="email">&lt;joachim.eibl at gmx.de&gt;</tt></p></div></div><div>Revision <span class="releaseinfo">0.9.87 (<span class="date">2005-01-30</span>)</span></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2002-2005 Joachim Eibl</p></div><div><div class="legalnotice"><p>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in <a href="credits.html#gnu-fdl">the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License"</a>.</p></div></div><div><div><div class="abstract"><p></p><p>
   <span class="application">KDiff3</span> is a file and directory diff and merge tool which
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>compares and merges two or three text input files or directories,</p></li><li><p>shows the differences line by line and character by character(!),</p></li><li><p>provides an automatic merge-facility,</p></li><li><p>has an editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,</p></li><li><p>provides networktransparency via KIO,</p></li><li><p>has options to highlight or hide changes in white-space or comments,</p></li><li><p>supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other file encodings.</p></li></ul></div>
</p><p>
   This document describes KDiff3-version 0.9.87.
</p></div></div></div></div><div></div><hr></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="chapter"><a href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="introduction.html#why">Yet Another Diff Frontend?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots and Features</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="features.html">More Features</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="features.html#id2525905"> Line-By-Line And Char-By-Char Diff-Viewer</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="features.html#id2525932"> See White-Space Differences At One Glance</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="features.html#id2525961"> Triple-Diff</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="features.html#id2525997"> Comfortable Merge Of Two Or Three Input Files</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="features.html#id2526024">And ...</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd><dt><span class="chapter"><a href="documentation.html">2. Documentation of File Comparison And Merge</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="documentation.html#commandline">Command-Line Options</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475748">Comparing 2 files: </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475767">Merging 2 files: </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475798">Comparing 3 files: </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475816">Merging 3 files: </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475863">Special case: Files with the same name </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475889">Commandline for starting a directory comparison or merge: </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="documentation.html#id2475958">For more information on command line options use: </a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="opendialog.html">Open-Dialog</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="pasteinput.html">Paste and Drop Input</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="interpretinginformation.html">Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="merging.html">Merging And The Merge Output Editor Window</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="navigation.html">Navigation And Editing</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="selections.html">Select, Copy And Paste</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="saving.html">Saving</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="find.html">Finding Strings</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="options.html">Options</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2538197">Font</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2538228">Colors</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2538342">Editor Settings</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2539185">Diff &amp; Merge Settings</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2539328">Directory Merge</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2539363">Regional and Language Options</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#id2539464">Miscellaneous</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="options.html#shortcuts">Configuring Keyboard-Shortcuts</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="preprocessors.html">Preprocessor Commands</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="preprocessors.html#sedbasics">sed Basics</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="preprocessors.html#sedforkdiff3">Examples For sed-Use In KDiff3</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="preprocessors.html#id2540145">Order Of Preprocessor Execution</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="preprocessors.html#id2540207">Warning</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd><dt><span class="chapter"><a href="dirmerge.html">3. Directory Comparison and Merge with KDiff3</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="dirmerge.html#dirmergeintro">Introduction</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="startingdirmerge.html">Starting Directory Comparison Or Merge</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="startingdirmerge.html#id2540384">Compare/Merge two directories: </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="startingdirmerge.html#id2540424">Compare/Merge three directories: </a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="dirmergevisible.html">Visible Information</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="dirmergevisible.html#name">The Name Column</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="dirmergevisible.html#coloring">The Columns A/B/C and the Coloring Scheme</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="dirmergevisible.html#operation">The Operation Column</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="dirmergevisible.html#status">The Status Column</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="dirmergevisible.html#statisticscolulmns">Statistics Columns</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="dothemerge.html">Doing A Merge</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="dirmergeoptions.html">Options for Comparing and Merging Directories</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="other.html">Other Functions</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="other.html#id2541372">Split/Full Screen Mode</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="other.html#id2541398">Comparing or Merging a Single File</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd><dt><span class="chapter"><a href="misc.html">4. Miscellaneous Topics</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="misc.html#networktransparency">Networktransparency via KIO</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="misc.html#id2541445">KIO-Slaves</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="misc.html#id2541539">How To Write URLs</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="misc.html#id2541575">Capabilities of KIO-Slaves</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="kpart.html">Using KDiff3 as a KPart</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="chapter"><a href="faq.html">5. Questions and Answers</a></span></dt><dt><span class="chapter"><a href="credits.html">6. Credits and License</a></span></dt><dt><span class="appendix"><a href="installation.html">A. Installation</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="installation.html#getting-kdiff3">How to obtain KDiff3</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="requirements.html">Requirements</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="compilation.html">Compilation and Installation</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div></div><table width="100%" class="bottom-nav"><tr><td width="33%" align="left" valign="top" class="navLeft"></td><td width="34%" align="center" valign="top" class="navCenter"> </td><td width="33%" align="right" valign="top" class="navRight"><a href="introduction.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="33%" align="left" class="navLeft"> </td><td width="34%" align="center" class="navCenter"> </td><td width="33%" align="right" class="navRight"> Introduction</td></tr></table></body></html>