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by JeremyNicoll
Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:57 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Ignore large block of text
Replies: 12
Views: 2856

Re: Ignore large block of text

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) &...
by JeremyNicoll
Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:32 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Support for COBOL
Replies: 14
Views: 5583

Re: Support for COBOL

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 ...
by JeremyNicoll
Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:39 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Support for COBOL
Replies: 14
Views: 5583

Re: Support for COBOL

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 ...
by JeremyNicoll
Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:04 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Support for COBOL
Replies: 14
Views: 5583

Re: Support for COBOL

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 or a j...
by JeremyNicoll
Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: EBCDIC is not being displayed correctly
Replies: 22
Views: 9239

Re: EBCDIC is not being displayed correctly

Thank-you!
by JeremyNicoll
Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: EBCDIC is not being displayed correctly
Replies: 22
Views: 9239

Re: EBCDIC is not being displayed correctly

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 c...
by JeremyNicoll
Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:22 pm
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: EBCDIC is not being displayed correctly
Replies: 22
Views: 9239

Re: EBCDIC is not being displayed correctly

... 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 a nee...
by JeremyNicoll
Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:32 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Slippery directories
Replies: 9
Views: 4845

Re: Slippery directories

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?
by JeremyNicoll
Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:21 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Bug: Ignored lines by regex do not work always
Replies: 17
Views: 8251

Re: Bug: Ignored lines by regex do not work always

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 of...
by JeremyNicoll
Wed Feb 16, 2022 9:50 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Git integration question
Replies: 32
Views: 16990

Re: Git integration question

Or, it might be possible to have Defender not examine the location it copies those files to? Yes on personal machines. Unfortunately not possible on work machines that are managed by corporate IT. My corporate IT experience is all as a mainframe systems programmer; where - if there was a corporate ...
by JeremyNicoll
Wed Feb 16, 2022 7:38 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Git integration question
Replies: 32
Views: 16990

Re: Git integration question

While not ideal, it seems to me that introducing a delay between git calling EDP and the comparison starting might help, especially if there was any way to tell when Defender has stopped examining the newly-copied files. So, have git call (say) a batch file that waits for something (maybe just a few...
by JeremyNicoll
Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:42 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: comparison is triping
Replies: 14
Views: 8225

Re: comparison is triping

the larger file is bigger than one screen; so, no single screenshot will catch the problem... Two things: 1. you should be able to create a test case where the files are somewhat smaller 2. a temporary change to the resolution/scaling of your desktop might enable you to fit a bigger window into one...
by JeremyNicoll
Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:28 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: comparison is triping
Replies: 14
Views: 8225

Re: comparison is triping

the larger file is bigger than one screen; so, no single screenshot will catch the problem... Two things: 1. you should be able to create a test case where the files are somewhat smaller 2. a temporary change to the resolution/scaling of your desktop might enable you to fit a bigger window into one...
by JeremyNicoll
Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:17 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Issue when comparing directories
Replies: 8
Views: 4590

Re: Issue when comparing directories

What was "psguru"'s second screenshot meant to show - it's the same as the first one. It looks different for me: https://www.prestoforums.com/download/file.php?id=314 No, that's your third screenshot. You posted the first screenshot twice, as far as I can see, but with two different intro...
by JeremyNicoll
Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:50 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Issue when comparing directories
Replies: 8
Views: 4590

Re: Issue when comparing directories

What was "psguru"'s second screenshot meant to show - it's the same as the first one.

Is there a way to get debug info generated as the command runs, and/or find out how long each part of the process takes?