It highlights the areas depending on changes between files, using same color convention that I mentioned above. But using this navigation bar, you can easily scroll the file by clicking on the selected area. In a big file, you will have to navigate the whole text file up and down to find the difference. The Navigation Bar on the right side of the Notepad++ is very useful if you are comparing big files. See screenshot below for detail. You can change the color from “ compare plugin” option. The comparison between text files will be highlighted in Yellow, Orange, and Green (by default). Text file with whom you want to compare with is on the right side and on the left side is the last one you have edited. Two text files will open up in Notepad++ with Compare navigation bar plugin on the right side. Now open the Compare plugin from the plugin option of the menu steps are Menu Bar –> Plugin –> Compare –> Compare or Ctrl+D (Short Cut Key). You can install this plugin from within Notepad++ by going to Plugins -> Plugin Manger -> Show Plugin Manager. In the plugins that are displayed, just find “Compare” plugin and install that. See screenshot below for detail (if you don’t have Notepad++ already, you can it download from here).Īfter you have successfully installed this plugin in your Notepad++, open the text files in the Notepad++ which you want to compare.

How to Install Compare Plugin in Notepad++ You can navigate to line added, deleted, changed, and moved.Īlso check out NPPDoc plugin that lets two persons collaborate on same text file. This file comparison plugin also comes with a handy navigation bar on the right side of the Notepad++ to quickly navigate various comparison points between files. You do not need to manually save different versions of the file it does that automatically. Then this Compare plugin for Notepad++ will let you compare current version of the file with the one that was saved previously. Let’s say you save a file and then make changes to it. One interesting feature of this plugin is that it even lets you compare two different versions of the same file. It make comparison very clear by highlighting the differences between the files using different colors. It is a useful plugin which lets you compare one text file with several other available text files in the Notepad++ tab one by one and side by side. Compare is a free Notepad++ file comparison plugin to compare two files in Notepad++.

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