Bug 190766

Summary: Ability to compare text pastes (without being saved to file). I.E. From the pastebuffer.
Product: [Applications] kompare Reporter: Shaun Reich <sreich>
Component: generalAssignee: Kompare developers <kompare-devel>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: rulatir, wadosm
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Shaun Reich 2009-04-26 23:24:58 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Hello, I would like Kompare to have a feature to, when you start it, click a button e.g. "New Comparison", this will open up a side-by-side text area, where you can paste what you have in the pastebuffer (there are 2 text areas).

You can them hit the "Compare" button, and it will compare the differences between them. Probably popping up another instance of Kompare to read the information given by the first. This would probably make it easier to implement, since one would just be two text areas, and then you can just export that to a normal Kompare.

I find this handy when I just want to compare a few things, or small blocks of text, etc.

Hopefully other people would find this useful too.
Comment 1 Michał Wadowski 2014-08-23 08:40:39 UTC 
I agree with my predecessor. This feature is e.g. WinMerge application, and I think this feature is very useful.
Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2014-09-03 13:31:28 UTC 
*** Bug 297839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***