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Beyond Compare

These options apply to Text Compare and Text Merge sessions.

1.Choose Tools | Options (Beyond Compare | Settings on macOS) to open the Options dialog.

2.Click the Text Editing page.

Item

Description

Auto indent

Select the checkbox to automatically indent new lines to match the leading whitespace on the previous line.

Backspace unindents

Select the checkbox to automatically delete enough whitespace to match the previous indentation level when pressing Backspace immediately after the leading whitespace of the line.

Allow positioning beyond end of line

Select the Allow positioning beyond end of line checkbox if you do not want to constrain the edit cursor by the end of text on a line.

Initialize "Text to find" to be current word

Select the checkbox if you want to use the current word as the search text for the Find command when there is no selection.

Show filtered line counts

Select the checkbox to display a summary of lines hidden by display filters:

Number of context lines

Defines the number of matching lines to display before and after a difference section when Show Context is used.