Hello
Fairly often I use Cirrus to compare text fragments that are not in files (or at least not in files I can easily pass to Cirrus). What I do, is I start a new Cirrus file compare session without specifying any files to compare. In the blank left an right panes I paste the text I am interested in comparing. This might for example be the verbose output of a program I am debugging before and after a change.
Problems.
1. The automatic alignment does not work properly unless you help it with the align manually function. You can't press F5 to reload and re-do the alignment because the files are not on disc anywhere.
2. You can't apply input filters to the text again because the data does not exist on disc anywhere. I was recently trying to compare some data where the order of the lines was unimportant, so I wanted to use the sort filter, but that could not be used.
Fairly often I use Cirrus to compare text fragments that are not in files (or at least not in files I can easily pass to Cirrus). What I do, is I start a new Cirrus file compare session without specifying any files to compare. In the blank left an right panes I paste the text I am interested in comparing. This might for example be the verbose output of a program I am debugging before and after a change.
Problems.
1. The automatic alignment does not work properly unless you help it with the align manually function. You can't press F5 to reload and re-do the alignment because the files are not on disc anywhere.
2. You can't apply input filters to the text again because the data does not exist on disc anywhere. I was recently trying to compare some data where the order of the lines was unimportant, so I wanted to use the sort filter, but that could not be used.
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