Sauro, Well I noticed the same thing. I have not tried to determine if I can change the display of "different" lines. But since I use a screen reader that can announce the background and foreground colors at the current position of my cursor, I get by with no problems. Keep in mind as well that WinMerge treats a set of contiguous lines with differences as 1 difference. So even though the status line might read 5 differences. the actual count of individual lines may be higher than 5. So what I have been doing was to toggle back to the full view of the file, move line by line and check the background and foreground. When it changes, then I know I have reached the end of the group of lines that made up that particular difference. But since I know a lot about the code I am merging, once I see the first line that starts the difference, I often remember what the difference actually is before I read line by line. That is just a bonus in my case. They may have options available to modify this for us, but I have not had the opportunity to check yet. -Rodney Sauro Cesaretti wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried winmerge as well and it's really an interesting software. > But unluckly, it seems that it indicates the differences between the two > files with colors only. > Did you find another way to show the differences? > > Thanks, > Regards, Sauro > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R. Haynie > Sent: mercoledì 1 luglio 2009 15.18 > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Text Editors and Text Diff/Merge > > Yes, in my post this morning I said I would be trying to download it again > from SourceForge. Well this time SorceForge was up and allowed the > download. > > I will be trying Jamal's edSharp again today. I tried it when he first > released it a long while ago, for a quick minute. > > As far as the file comparison and merge... read on. > > winmerge can be obtained from: > http://winmerge.org/ > > I have to say winmerge is completely awesome and 99% accessible. > Awesome help system, great documentation, hotkeys listed, plugins available. > This free program was 100% exactly what I needed for the file comparison and > merge process. No graphical interfaces that did not allow access. > The comparison window allowed keyboard navigation and navigation in so many > different ways. I knocked out a couple of my large files I had to do in no > time at all. I could compare the files. Show only the differences. Change > between the files. Toggle back to showing all lines so I could get a > perspective of exactly where the change was in respect to the rest of the > file. Merge the difference from left to right, or right to left. Navigate > to next difference... > > All of the above using only keystrokes, and no virtual cursoring. I could > even manually edit the files in the editor as I am comparing. > > I can not express how much this program will increase my productivity over > the next couple weeks. So many of the other file comparison programs were > only somewhat accessible or not accessible at all. > Winmerge is it! > > This program is so extensible as well. The plugins allow you to do so much > more and quite easily. Do you write C code? Well you compare source files, > but not compare the commented lines. You can create patch files to give to > others... Things as simple as that make winmerge the ultimate utility for me > at this time. > > I hope to find the "perfect" editor as far as accessibility and > functionality, focused on my needs, this week. So stay tuned and I'll post > some comments on what I came up with. It is good to have a thread about > this topic every year or so. > > -Rodney > > black ares wrote: > >> also, there is a utility named winmerge >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Homme, James" >> <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:17 PM >> Subject: RE: Text Editors and Text Diff/Merge >> >> >> Hi Sauro, >> For my lack of money, Jamal's EdSharp has replaced what I used to say >> was the greatest editor on earth. Grab it at >> http://www.empowermentzone.com/edsetup.exe/. Here is a paragraph from >> the documentation. Maybe it will help you. >> >> Two commands produce text in a new window after comparing sets of >> lines. Lines above the cursor are considered the first set, and the >> rest are considered the second. Use the List Different Items command, >> Alt+Shift+L, to get lines that are in the first set but not the >> second. Use the Query Common Items command, >> Alt+Shift+Q, to get lines that are in both. These commands ignore >> blank lines but are case sensitive. >> >> If that won't help you, maybe there would be a way to run the DOS fc >> utility and bring the output into the editor. I think that could be >> done with all the facilities at your disposal with EdSharp. >> >> Thanks. >> J >> im >> ---------- >> Jim Homme >> Usability Services >> 412-544-1810 >> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> "You can do anything you want to if you put your mind to it" -- Jim >> Homme Sr. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R. Haynie >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:26 AM >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Text Editors and Text Diff/Merge >> >> Ok, this is something that has troubled me on and off for a while now. >> >> I am looking for a real good text editor preferably one a integrated >> diff (file compare) utility. And it would be great if the diff had a >> merge functionality. >> I have been using UltraEdit for 6 or so years now. Occasionally the >> editor will crash. I could not make a nice reproduceable situation of >> when it crashes. The latest version of UE is no different. >> >> I took another look at Komodo Edit, but versin 5 does not seem to be >> any more accessible with JAWS. >> >> Editor: >> I use the editor for writing sql, php, python, csv files, viewing >> logs, etc. I like code folding and function lists to quickly move >> around in longer files. >> >> So I need sort of an Accessible Power Text Editor. I would not mind >> paying for it, but it shouldn't crash on me like UE doing on both of >> my boxes. >> >> >> I'll be doing file comparisons and merging of changes over the next >> few weeks. Other than that, I probably compare files once a month. I >> am going to try out WinMerge, but Tuesday SourceForge would not allow >> any downloads of that package (500 error), so I'll try Wednesday. If >> that package is accessible, ten I the file compare be satisfied >> >> >> Sina had a couple ideas, but he also suggested to hit the list up with >> the question. >> >> -Rodney >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> >> This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are >> intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are >> addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify >> the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the >> intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or >> distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. 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