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I want to know if Beyond Compare could treat the following as unimportant difference?

Left: this is a sentence

Right: this is {change to another line} a sentence

I thought maybe I could define something like '\n' or '\r\n' as unimportant text using regular expressions, but seems the tool doesn't support searching '\n' or '\r\n'...Are there any other ways to do this?

Xe Cheung
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Beyond Compare can't ignore line break differences.

The following will always show as a difference:

one two

one
two

Ignoring line break differences is on the feature wish list for a future version of Beyond Compare, but it doesn't have a scheduled release date.

Ignoring other types of text differences is described in the article Define Unimportant Text in Beyond Compare

Chris Kennedy
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  • Nice to hear a voice from Scooter! Do let me know when the feature is schedule. – Xe Cheung Jan 06 '16 at 17:37
  • Also I did learn how to define unimportant text from review the definitions about how it did for C/C++, then the idea to define '\n' as a 'comment' came up. – Xe Cheung Jan 06 '16 at 17:40