Diff tools, WinMerge & Meld

WinMerge is wonderful for those souls that are still trap developing in windows.

Their “main” site is currently down but you can check it out later at winmerge.org.

Meld is another great app which I found ones I moved 100% to linux.

I really like them both but there is one feature that WinMerge has that I haven’t been able to reproduce in Meld. WinMerge has keyboard shortcuts for everything, so you do something like alt-down, alt left (can’t recall the exact commands) and that will go to the next diff and replace the right file with the left file. In Meld you have (or at least as far as I know) to do the same but with the mouse which makes it slower.

A smaller thing is that WinMerge is faster and I believe it’s both because it’s more mature and because it’s C++ while meld is python+GTK .

And of course Meld gets extra points for the cool effect to reflect changes.