Provided by: diffuse_0.7.3-1_all bug

NAME

       diffuse - graphical tool for merging and comparing text files

SYNOPSIS

       diffuse [-h | -? | --help | -v | --version]

       diffuse [--no-rcfile | --rcfile file] [[option...] | [file...]...]

DESCRIPTION

       Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files.  Diffuse is able to
       compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually
       adjust line matching and directly edit files.  Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of
       files from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK
       repositories for comparison and merging.

OPTIONS

   Help Options
       If a help option is specified, it must be the only argument specified on the command line.
       Diffuse will immediately quit after displaying the help information.

       -h, -?, --help
           Display usage information.

       -v, --version
           Display version number and copyright information.

   Configuration Options
       If a configuration option is specified, it must be the first argument specified on the
       command line.

       --no-rcfile
           Do not read any initialisation files.

       --rcfile file
           Only read initialisation commands from file file.

   General Options
       -c, --commit rev
           Open separate file comparison tabs for all files affected by commit rev from the
           remaining paths specified in the command line arguments.

       -D, --close-if-same
           Close all tabs with no differences.

       -e, --encoding codec
           Use codec to read and write files.

       -L, --label label
           Display label instead of the file name.

       -m, --modified
           Open separate file comparison tabs for all modified files from the remaining paths
           specified in the command line arguments.

       -r, --revision rev
           Include revision rev of the next file named in the command line arguments in a file
           comparison tab.

       -s, --separate
           Open all remaining files specified in the command line arguments in separate file
           comparison tabs.

       -t, --tab
           Start a new tab for any remaining files named in the command line arguments.

       -V, --vcs vcs-list
           Search for version control systems in the ordering: vcs-list.

       --line line
           Start with line line selected.

       --null-file
           Create a blank file comparison pane.

   Display Options
       Display options specified in the command line arguments will override saved preference
       values.

       -b, --ignore-space-change
           Ignore changes to the amount of white space.

       -B, --ignore-blank-lines
           Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.

       -E, --ignore-end-of-line
           Ignore end of line differences.

       -i, --ignore-case
           Ignore case differences in file contents.

       -w, --ignore-all-space
           Ignore all white space.

FILE COMPARISON

       Use the File → New 2-Way File Merge, File → New 3-Way File Merge, and File → New N-Way
       File Merge menu items to create additional tabs for comparing text files. File names and
       revisions can be specified either in the command line arguments used to invoke Diffuse or
       in fields on the Open File dialogue.

       Diffuse displays files side-by-side inserting gaps to align similar lines of text.
       Differences are highlighted with a different background colour.

   Comparison Summary
       A summary of the compared files is located in the far right margin. The summary
       illustrates where gaps have been inserted to align matching lines of text and highlights
       differences using colour. Manual edits are also highlighted in green. A blue cursor
       identifies the region currently being viewed. The viewed region can be changed by clicking
       anywhere on the summary.

   Selecting
       Lines of text can be selected using the mouse pointer or keyboard. Select lines of text
       with the mouse pointer by clicking on a line. Click and drag to select multiple lines.
       Holding down the shift key when clicking will extend the current selection. Select lines
       using the keyboard by pressing the page up/down or arrow keys. Extend the current
       selection by holding down the shift key and pressing the page up/down or arrow keys. Move
       the selection to an adjacent file using the left and right arrow keys.

   Matching Lines
       The mouse pointer or keyboard can be used to manually align lines of text with adjacent
       files. To aligning lines of text using the mouse pointer, select a line of text with the
       left mouse button, right click on a line of text from an adjacent file, and choose Align
       with Selection. To align lines of text using the keyboard, move the selection with the
       cursor keys, press the space bar to pick the current line of text, move the selection with
       the cursor keys to a line of text in an adjacent file, and press the space bar to pick the
       target line of text. Pressing the Escape key will cancel the operation.

       Use the Isolate menu item to prevent the selected lines from being matched with any lines
       from the adjacent files.

   Editing
       Press the Enter key or double-click on a text area to enter text editing mode. The cursor
       will change to indicate text editing mode and the status bar at the bottom of the window
       will display the cursor's column position.

       In text editing mode, text can be selected with the mouse pointer by click and dragging.
       The current selection can be extended by holding down the shift key and moving the cursor
       by clicking with the mouse pointer or pressing any of the arrow, home, end or page up/down
       keys. Individual words can be selected by double-clicking on them with the mouse pointer.
       Whole lines can be selected by triple-clicking on them with the mouse pointer.

       Modify text by typing on the keyword. Modified lines will be highlighted in green. Use the
       Undo and Redo menu items to undo and redo the previously preformed operations.

       Press the Escape key or click on another file's text area using the left mouse button to
       leave editing mode.

   Merging
       Use the difference buttons or menu items to navigate between blocks of differences within
       a file. When navigating, Diffuse will move the selection to the next continuous set of
       lines with differences or edits.

       Use the merge buttons or menu items to copy blocks of text into the selected range of
       lines. The Undo and Redo menu items can be used to undo and redo the previously preformed
       operations. All changes to a set of lines can be reverted using the Clear Edits menu item
       regardless of the order the edits were performed.

VERSION CONTROL

       Diffuse can retrieve file revisions from several version control systems via their command
       line interface. The Microsoft Windows build of Diffuse is able to use both the Cygwin and
       native versions of the supported version control systems. When using Diffuse with Cygwin,
       ensure Diffuse's Cygwin preferences correctly describe your system. If the Update paths
       for Cygwin preference exists for a version control system, it must be enabled to use the
       Cygwin version.

       Version control systems are sensitive to the system path and other environment variable
       settings. The Launch from a Bash login shell preference may be used to easily set the
       environment for Cygwin version control systems.

   Viewing Uncommitted Modifications
       The -m option will cause Diffuse to open comparison tabs for each file the version control
       system indicates has uncommitted modifications. This is convenient for reviewing all
       changes before committing or resolving a merge conflict. If no paths are specified the
       current working directory will be used. For example, view all of your uncommitted
       modifications with this command line:

           $ diffuse -m

       The default revision of a file will be used for comparison if only one file is specified.
       For example, this will display a 2-way merge between the default revision of foo.C and the
       local foo.C file:

           $ diffuse foo.C

   Specifying Revisions
       The -r option may also be used to explicitly specify a particular file revision. Any
       revision specifier understood by the version control system may be used. The local file
       will be used for comparison if only one file revision is specified. For example, this will
       display a 2-way merge between revision 123 of foo.C and the local foo.C file:

           $ diffuse -r 123 foo.C

       Multiple file revisions can be compared by specifying multiple -r options. For example,
       this will display a 2-way merge between revision 123 of foo.C and revision 321 of foo.C:

           $ diffuse -r 123 -r 321 foo.C

       Local files can be mixed with files from the version control system. For example, this
       will display a 3-way merge between revision MERGE_HEAD of foo.C, the local foo.C file, and
       revision HEAD of foo.C:

           $ diffuse -r MERGE_HEAD foo.C foo.C -r HEAD foo.C

       For the -c option may be used to easily specify a pair of sequential revisions. For
       example, this will display a 2-way merge between revision 1.2.2 of foo.C and revision
       1.2.3 of foo.C:

           $ diffuse -c 1.2.3 foo.C

       Diffuse does not limit the number of panes that can be used for comparing files. The
       inputs to a Git octopus merge could be viewed with a command line like this:

           $ diffuse -r HEAD^1 -r HEAD^2 -r HEAD^3 -r HEAD^4 -r HEAD^5 foo.C

RESOURCES

       Resources can be used to customise several aspects of Diffuse's appearance and behaviour
       such as changing the colours used in the user interface, customising the keyboard
       shortcuts, adding or replacing syntax highlighting rules, or changing the mapping from
       file extensions to syntax highlighting rules.

       When Diffuse is started, it will read commands from the system wide initialisation file
       /etc/diffuserc (%INSTALL_DIR%\diffuserc on Microsoft Windows) and then the personal
       initialisation file ~/.config/diffuse/diffuserc (%HOME%\.config\diffuse\diffuserc on
       Microsoft Windows). This behaviour can be changed with the --no-rcfile and --rcfile
       configuration options. A Bourne shell-like lexical analyser is used to parse
       initialisation commands. Comments and special characters can be embedded using the same
       style of escaping used in Bourne shell scripts.

   General
       import file
           Processes initialisation commands from file. Initialisation files will only be
           processed once.

   Key Bindings
       keybinding context action key_combination
           Binds a key combination to action when used in context. Specify Shift and Control
           modifiers by prepending Shift+ and Ctrl+ to key_combination respectively. Keys
           normally modified by the Shift key should be specified using their modified value if
           key_combination involves the Shift key. For example, Ctrl+g and Shift+Ctrl+G. Remove
           bindings for key_combination by specifying None for the action.

       Menu Item Key Bindings
           Use menu for the context to define key bindings for menu items. The following values
           are valid for action:

           open_file
               File → Open File...  menu item

               Default: Ctrl+o

           open_file_in_new_tab
               File → Open File In New Tab...  menu item

               Default: Ctrl+t

           open_modified_files
               File → Open Modified Files...  menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+O

           open_commit
               File → Open Commit...  menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+T

           reload_file
               File → Reload File menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+R

           save_file
               File → Save File menu item

               Default: Ctrl+s

           save_file_as
               File → Save File As...  menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+A

           save_all
               File → Save All menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+S

           new_2_way_file_merge
               File → New 2-Way File Merge menu item

               Default: Ctrl+2

           new_3_way_file_merge
               File → New 3-Way File Merge menu item

               Default: Ctrl+3

           new_n_way_file_merge
               File → New N-Way File Merge menu item

               Default: Ctrl+4

           close_tab
               File → Close Tab menu item

               Default: Ctrl+w

           undo_close_tab
               File → Undo Close Tab menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+w

           quit
               File → Quit menu item

               Default: Ctrl+q

           undo
               Edit → Undo menu item

               Default: Ctrl+z

           redo
               Edit → Redo menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Z

           cut
               Edit → Cut menu item

               Default: Ctrl+x

           copy
               Edit → Copy menu item

               Default: Ctrl+c

           paste
               Edit → Paste menu item

               Default: Ctrl+v

           select_all
               Edit → Select All menu item

               Default: Ctrl+a

           clear_edits
               Edit → Clear Edits menu item

               Default: Ctrl+r

           dismiss_all_edits
               Edit → Dismiss All Edits menu item

               Default: Ctrl+d

           find
               Edit → Find...  menu item

               Default: Ctrl+f

           find_next
               Edit → Find Next menu item

               Default: Ctrl+g

           find_previous
               Edit → Find Previous menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+G

           go_to_line
               Edit → Go To Line...  menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+L

           preferences
               Edit → Preferences menu item

               Default: None

           no_syntax_highlighting
               View → Syntax Highlighting → None menu item

               Default: None

           syntax_highlighting_syntax
               View → Syntax Highlighting → syntax menu item

               Default: None

           realign_all
               View → Realign All menu item

               Default: Ctrl+l

           isolate
               View → Isolate menu item

               Default: Ctrl+i

           first_difference
               View → First Difference menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Up

           previous_difference
               View → Previous Difference menu item

               Default: Ctrl+Up

           next_difference
               View → Next Difference menu item

               Default: Ctrl+Down

           last_difference
               View → Last Difference menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Down

           first_tab
               View → First Tab menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Page_Up

           previous_tab
               View → Previous Tab menu item

               Default: Ctrl+Page_Up

           next_tab
               View → Next Tab menu item

               Default: Ctrl+Page_Down

           last_tab
               View → Last Tab menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Page_Down

           shift_pane_right
               View → Shift Pane Right menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+parenleft

           shift_pane_left
               View → Shift Pane Left menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+parenright

           convert_to_upper_case
               Format → Convert To Upper Case menu item

               Default: Ctrl+u

           convert_to_lower_case
               Format → Convert To Lower Case menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+U

           sort_lines_in_ascending_order
               Format → Sort Lines In Ascending Order menu item

               Default: Ctrl+y

           sort_lines_in_descending_order
               Format → Sort Lines In Descending Order menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Y

           remove_trailing_white_space
               Format → Remove Trailing White Space menu item

               Default: Ctrl+k

           convert_tabs_to_spaces
               Format → Convert Tabs To Spaces menu item

               Default: Ctrl+b

           convert_leading_spaces_to_tabs
               Format → Convert Leading Spaces To Tabs menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+B

           increase_indenting
               Format → Increase Indenting menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+greater

           decrease_indenting
               Format → Decrease Indenting menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+less

           convert_to_dos
               Format → Convert To DOS Format menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+E

           convert_to_mac
               Format → Convert To Mac Format menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+C

           convert_to_unix
               Format → Convert To Unix Format menu item

               Default: Ctrl+e

           copy_selection_right
               Merge → Copy Selection Right menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Right

           copy_selection_left
               Merge → Copy Selection Left menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+Left

           copy_left_into_selection
               Merge → Copy Left Into Selection menu item

               Default: Ctrl+Right

           copy_right_into_selection
               Merge → Copy Right Into Selection menu item

               Default: Ctrl+Left

           merge_from_left_then_right
               Merge → Merge From Left Then Right menu item

               Default: Ctrl+m

           merge_from_right_then_left
               Merge → Merge From Right Then Left menu item

               Default: Shift+Ctrl+M

           help_contents
               Help → Help Contents menu item

               Default: F1

           about
               Help → About menu item

               Default: None

       Line Editing Mode Key Bindings
           Use line_mode for the context to define key bindings for line editing mode. The
           following values are valid for action:

           enter_align_mode
               enter alignment editing mode

               Default: space

           enter_character_mode
               enter character editing mode

               Defaults: Return, KP_Enter

           first_line
               move cursor to the first line

               Defaults: Home, g

           extend_first_line
               move cursor to the first line, extending the selection

               Default: Shift+Home

           last_line
               move cursor to the last line

               Defaults: End, Shift+G

           extend_last_line
               move cursor to the last line, extending the selection

               Default: Shift+End

           up
               move cursor up one line

               Defaults: Up, k

           extend_up
               move cursor up one line, extending the selection

               Defaults: Shift+Up, Shift+K

           down
               move cursor down one line

               Defaults: Down, j

           extend_down
               move cursor down one line, extending the selection

               Defaults: Shift+Down, Shift+J

           left
               move cursor left one file

               Defaults: Left, h

           extend_left
               move cursor left one file, extending the selection

               Default: Shift+Left

           right
               move cursor right one file

               Defaults: Right, l

           extend_right
               move cursor right one file, extending the selection

               Default: Shift+Right

           page_up
               move cursor up one page

               Defaults: Page_Up, Ctrl+u

           extend_page_up
               move cursor up one page, extending the selection

               Defaults: Shift+Page_Up, Shift+Ctrl+u

           page_down
               move cursor down one page

               Defaults: Page_Down, Ctrl+d

           extend_page_down
               move cursor down one page, extending the selection

               Defaults: Shift+Page_Down, Shift+Ctrl+d

           delete_text
               delete the selected text

               Defaults: BackSpace, Delete, x

           first_difference
               select the first difference

               Defaults: Ctrl+Home, Shift+P

           previous_difference
               select the previous difference

               Default: p

           next_difference
               select the next difference

               Default: n

           last_difference
               select the last difference

               Defaults: Ctrl+End, Shift+N

           clear_edits
               clear all edits from the selected lines

               Default: r

           copy_selection_left
               copy lines from the selection into the file on the left

               Default: None

           copy_selection_right
               copy lines from the selection into the file on the right

               Default: None

           copy_left_into_selection
               copy lines from the file on the left into the selection

               Default: Shift+L

           copy_right_into_selection
               copy lines from the file on the right into the selection

               Default: Shift+H

           merge_from_left_then_right
               merge lines from file on the left then file on the right

               Default: m

           merge_from_right_then_left
               merge lines from file on the right then file on the left

               Default: Shift+M

           isolate
               isolate the selected lines

               Default: i

       Alignment Editing Mode Key Bindings
           Use align_mode for the context to define key bindings for alignment editing mode. The
           following values are valid for action:

           enter_line_mode
               enter line editing mode

               Default: Escape

           enter_character_mode
               enter character editing mode

               Defaults: Return, KP_Enter

           first_line
               move cursor to the first line

               Default: g

           last_line
               move cursor to the last line

               Default: Shift+G

           up
               move cursor up one line

               Defaults: Up, k

           down
               move cursor down one line

               Defaults: Down, j

           left
               move cursor left one file

               Defaults: Left, h

           right
               move cursor right one file

               Defaults: Right, l

           page_up
               move cursor up one page

               Defaults: Page_Up, Ctrl+u

           page_down
               move cursor down one page

               Defaults: Page_Down, Ctrl+d

           align
               align the selected line to the cursor position

               Default: space

       Character Editing Mode Key Bindings
           Use character_mode for the context to define key bindings for character editing mode.
           The following values are valid for action:

           enter_line_mode
               enter line editing mode

               Default: Escape

   Strings
       string name value
           Declares a string resource called name with value value.

       Used String Resources
           The following string resources are used by Diffuse:

           difference_colours
               a list of colour resources used to indicate differences

               Default: difference_1 difference_2 difference_3

   Colours
       [ colour | color ] name red green blue
           Declares a colour resource called name. Individual colour components should be
           expressed as a value between 0 and 1.

       Used Colour Resources
           The following colour resources are used by Diffuse:

           alignment
               colour used to indicate a line picked for manual alignment

               Default: 1 1 0

           character_selection
               colour used to indicate selected characters

               Default: 0.7 0.7 1

           cursor
               colour used for the cursor

               Default: 0 0 0

           difference_1
               colour used to identify differences between the first pair of files

               Default: 1 0.625 0.625

           difference_2
               colour used to identify differences between the second pair of files

               Default: 0.85 0.625 0.775

           difference_3
               colour used to identify differences between the third pair of files

               Default: 0.85 0.775 0.625

           edited
               colour used to indicate edited lines

               Default: 0.5 1 0.5

           hatch
               colour used for indicating alignment gaps

               Default: 0.8 0.8 0.8

           line_number
               colour used for line numbers

               Default: 0 0 0

           line_number_background
               background colour for the line number area

               Default: 0.75 0.75 0.75

           line_selection
               colour used to indicate selected lines

               Default: 0.7 0.7 1

           map_background
               background colour for the map area

               Default: 0.6 0.6 0.6

           margin
               colour used to indicate the right margin

               Default: 0.8 0.8 0.8

           preedit
               pre-edit text colour

               Default: 0 0 0

           text
               regular text colour

               Default: 0 0 0

           text_background
               background colour for the text area

               Default: 1 1 1

   Floating Point Values
       float name value
           Declares a floating point resource called name with value value.

       Used Floating Point Resources
           The following floating point resources are used by Diffuse:

           alignment_opacity
               opacity used when compositing the manual alignment colour

               Defaults: 1

           character_difference_opacity
               opacity used when compositing character difference colours

               Defaults: 0.4

           character_selection_opacity
               opacity used when compositing the character selection colour

               Defaults: 0.4

           edited_opacity
               opacity used when compositing the edited line colour

               Defaults: 0.4

           line_difference_opacity
               opacity used when compositing line difference colours

               Defaults: 0.3

           line_selection_opacity
               opacity used when compositing the line selection colour

               Defaults: 0.4

   Syntax Highlighting
       syntax name [initial_state default_tag]
           Declares a new syntax style called name. Syntax highlighting uses a simple state
           machine that transitions between states when certain patterns are matched. The initial
           state for the state machine will be initial_state. All characters not matched by a
           pattern will be tagged as default_tag for highlighting. The syntax style called name
           can be removed by omitting initial_state and default_tag.

       syntax_files name [pattern]
           Specifies that files with a name matching pattern should be highlighted using the
           syntax style called name. Patterns used to match files for use with the syntax style
           called name can be removed by omitting pattern.

       syntax_magic name [pattern [ignorecase]]
           Specifies that files with a first line matching pattern should be highlighted using
           the syntax style called name. Patterns used to match files for use with the syntax
           style called name can be removed by omitting pattern.

       syntax_pattern name initial_state final_state tag pattern [ignorecase]
           Adds a pattern to the previously declared syntax style. Patterns are tried one at a
           time in the order they were declared until the first match is found. A pattern will
           only be used to match characters if the state machine is in the state initial_state.
           The state machine will transition to final_state if the pattern defined by pattern is
           matched. Case insensitive pattern matching will be used if ignorecase is specified.
           All characters matched by the pattern will be tagged as tag for highlighting.

FILES

       The following files are used by Diffuse:

       /etc/diffuserc
           system wide initialisations (%INSTALL_DIR%\diffuserc on Microsoft Windows)

       /usr/share/diffuse/syntax/*.syntax
           syntax files for various languages (%INSTALL_DIR%\syntax\*.syntax on Microsoft
           Windows)

       ~/.config/diffuse/diffuserc
           your initialisations (%HOME%\.config\diffuse\diffuserc on Microsoft Windows)

       ~/.config/diffuse/prefs
           your saved preferences (%HOME%\.config\diffuse\prefs on Microsoft Windows)

       ~/.local/share/diffuse/state
           data persistent across sessions (%HOME%\.local\share\diffuse\state on Microsoft
           Windows)

AUTHOR

       Diffuse was written by Derrick Moser <derrick_moser@yahoo.com>.

       © 2006-2014 Derrick Moser. All Rights Reserved.

COPYING

       Diffuse is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
       of the licence, or (at your option) any later version.