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I'm not sure what problem has to be solved here. LNK files are just binary files, and they are compared as such. The target column is purely information (in case of LNK files), and it is hidden by default.

The original issue, again, will be resolved. We are not likely to have an option specific ...

Again, it simply, in case of shortcuts, imitates what the Explorer does. As for the performance, as i said earlier, it will not be an issue.


If I undrstand correctly that gives users a simple choice: don't display the target column (so be none the wiser about what EDP compared), or display it ...

The target value is used for display purposes (like the Windows Explorer's Link Target column.

Comparison is still performed on the actual links. The target is also used for navigation in case of symbolic links (reparse points).


But the thing is, the resolved target only shows a resolution by ...

You are probably right. In any case, that's up to IShellLink, we can't control its behavior.


Surely though you could peek at each target string to see if it contains a percent sign, first? And then if it does determine from an option (does it already exist? - I couldn't find anything online for ...

You could also shrink unnecessarily long words.

Why "Offset:", bearing in mind that anyone using this sort of display will already know that Offset is the normal way to specify a location? Why not just use "At:"?

Why "Selection:" when what it seems to mean, is "Size:"? Or "Sz:" or even "L:" or "Q ...

Why would one need this? - is it to read files that your user wouldn't otherwise be able to?

Presumably starting the compare via the right-click context menu only works (ever) if in Explorer/whatever you've had the rights to read the directory info of the parent directory?

Perhaps another option would be to write a simple 'plugin' which strips out the blocks of lines
you're not interested in. Possibly you'd want the plugin to leave a single line where each such
block had been saying "There was a key definition here." or even (if the number of them
matters) "Key ...

We don't use Guesslang via the plug-in architecture. Guessing is done on the text buffer; whether it was generated by a plug-in is irrelevant. Then there's mapping to EDP doc types, currently only system-defined. I can foresee mapping to a user-defined type but that language has to be supported by ...

As for user-defined parsers and language detectors, this is something we don't foresee in the immediate future.


When you say "user-defined parsers", do you mean loading Tree-sitter parsers /if/ someone had managed to create one themselves?

I'd have thought the effort involved in allowing users ...

Unfortunately, the syntax highlighting library we use does not support COBOL.


It's worse than that: it doesn't support lots of things. One might be inclined to ask why you chose it.

And, it looks like defining a parser for it, would be very hard work - suitable perhaps as an academic project ...

Thank-you!

Thanks. We were thinking about these code pages... Here's an idea: why should EBCDIC files treated as second-class citizens and compared as binary files? Or, for that matter, any other non-Unicode (ANSI) code pages? So one potential approach would be to have an option in EDP to define the default ...

... and (2) the existing EBCDIC support in binary comparison will go away, for obvious reasons.


It's not obvious to me. EBCDIC files are not all just text - yes those containing programme source (of one sort or another) are, but object code, load modules, snap dumps etc are not.

There's still ...

MSpagni wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:46 am Now, when a directory becomes empty after a deletion, the directory itlsef shifts at the bottom of the list.

Does that depend on how the list is sorted?

I'm unconvinced that the regexes are doing what you want. As far as I can see:

setting name='[^']*(icon|signedo|lasts|last_s|mute|photo)[^']*'

looks for

the literal "setting name='"
then zero or more instances of not-single-quote
then one of a set of literals
then zero of more instances ...