Detection of moved text blocks

[Samsara]

Perhaps I'm just not aware of this feature but the only thing I miss about beyond compare right now is the possibility to detect moved text blocks. I always get the block marked as added/removed... but I would much rather prefer a "moved" marking....

Is there a way to handle this? I know that there are some tools out there that can, I once saw a plugin for the notepad++ handling this...

Thanks in advance

[Chris]

Sorry, the current version of Beyond Compare (3.3.8) cannot detect moved blocks of text. They will show as changes.

Detecting moved text is on our wish list for a future version of BC.

[CraigB]

When?

This has seemingly been on the wishlist for years (dating back at least to 2006 as far as I can tell). Is there any actual development roadmap that includes this feature or must we choose an alternative comparison tool to get the feature?

[Aaron]

We do not have a public posting of our wishlist. We have a small team and we have not had the spare development resources to implement it yet. You can see a list of what we have managed to accomplish in the current version of BC3 or in our changelog:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/ChangeLog.txt

Detecting moved blocks is definitely something we still want to tackle, but is a large project and not something we will likely be able to implement soon.

[NW7US]

Is this feature available, now (2019)?

Thanks.

[Aaron]

Not out of the box. BC4 does support External Conversions, which can tidy and sort syntax. We have an example (for RESX files) here:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/suppo...rnalconversion

We also have a few "tidied" formats for download for other file types, here:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/downl..._moreformatsv4

Please note that if you edit and save in the new format, this will save the file in the formatted state (with the reordering and line breaks as displayed).