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In comparison, Meld is not stable, nor fast, especially for big diffs. The UI is also more limited. Araxis Merge and WinMerge are good alternatives
Yea I found Araxis Merge better than BeyondCompare, FileMerge, DiffForm, and Meld (mostly based on diffing prose rather than code, though).
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Yea I found Araxis Merge better than BeyondCompare, FileMerge, DiffForm, and Meld (mostly based on diffing prose rather than code, though).
Araxis Merge is ~4x the price of BC though. What does it do that makes is 4x better?
For me, I eliminated BC immediately because I was often diffing prose and it didn't have word wrap; that ability is apparently available now in the beta version of BC5, but it wasn't when I was testing it. I suspect it will continue to be non-optimized for prose in how it handles long lines.
This inspired me to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet knock out a quick web page prototype for me, using PDF.js to load and render the PDFs to canvas elements and then display visual diffs between their pages. Two prompts: Build a tool where I can drag and drop on two PDF files and it uses PDF.js to turn each of their pages into canvas elements and then displays those pages side by side with a third image that highlights any di…
I didn't find any actual difference. But - Maybe it's just me that's hallucinating