Prettify code before compare for formats like css js and html.

[spry]

Sorry if a duplicate but my search didn't return anything.

Any way to format files with plugins like CSSTidy or JS-beautify to take care of mostly meaningless differences between the files?

I do this manually now and it costs a fair amount of time.

[Aaron]

Hello,

Yes, although we only have a few specific for download. You can find the Tidy variants we host here:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/downl..._moreformatsv4

And we have a KB article for how to define and use any custom command line conversion utility, add it to a File Format, and it will be used automatically whenever you open files with that file format:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/suppo...rnalconversion

[ccallendar]

I've made a new file format to accomplish that. It calls an external batch file that runs the python jsbeautify code.

Steps:
1. Download, pip install, or clone the jsbeautify source code from here:
https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify

2. Install python if you haven't already

3. Create a new batch file in the Helpers folder (for me on Windows it is in my user folder under AppData\Roaming\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4), I called mine jsbeautify.bat

4. Put the following code into that batch file:
python C:\yourpath\js-beautify\python\js-beautify -i < %1 > %2

This will run python on the js-beautify script using the source file as stdin and saving to the target file.

5. Open Beyond Compare and make a new File Format ("JSBeautify") or copy an existing one which does the following Conversion:
External program (ANSI)
Loading:
Helpers\jsbeautify.bat %s %t

Make sure it is associated with .js files, and is at the top of your list if you want to override any existing JavaScript file format(s).

Hope that helps.