Beyond-compare wont ignore line-breaks?

Question

I have this comparison :

I want those line to be treated equal.

but it showes me they are different.

I already applied those settings :

What am I doing wrong ?

Royi Namir · Answer 1 · 2014-01-14T10:31:45.857

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this is not possible

I got an email from the company itself :

Sorry, it isn't possible to ignore line breaks.

This means:

one two

and

one
two

will always show as differences.

Comparison across line breaks is on our wish list for a future version of Beyond Compare.

Best Regards, Chris Kennedy Scooter Software

edited Jan 14 '14 at 10:31

answered Jan 29 '13 at 16:05

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It would be especially useful for diffing xml, where the line break doesn't matter (ish). – Alex KeySmith Jun 03 '14 at 13:39
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@AlexKey http://superuser.com/a/522468/98191 – Royi Namir Jun 07 '14 at 09:01
Thanks @RoyiNamir I completely forgot about that plugin. – Alex KeySmith Jun 09 '14 at 08:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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I'm afraid it is not possible: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10092538/how-to-ignore-line-breaks

even if you're ignoring line breaks, it won't treat the non-ignored text on separate lines as being continuous across line breaks.

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answered Jan 29 '13 at 12:41

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you right. look at my answer – Royi Namir Jan 29 '13 at 16:05

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 02 '14 at 14:37

I was also hoping that beyond compare would have something like this built in. Looks like it doesn't.

The best solution I have found to do this is to use some kind of code formatter on both sides. This allows you to compare real changes in the code. For javascript, I use JSBeautify.

For Java you could probably use your editor's built in beautifier or something like this: http://prettyprinter.de/

Beyond-compare wont ignore line-breaks?

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