Ah, okay. In that case can I vote for the "defective" behaviour pre-1.8?! OTOH, a simple "Show 'Identical' message" option as you suggest would be perfect.
It's nice to see ongoing development on the freeware version (thanks - it's a great tool) and the improvements (copy without padding, better diff marker etc ) are much appreciated.
However, it seems like v1.8 now greets all identical file pairs with the same "Files ... and ... are identical. Press ...