Using the Birds-Eye View

The birds-eye view is located on the right-hand side of a comparison window, immediately next to the scrollbar. Similarly to the QuickDiffs, the birds-eye view tells an interesting story. Birds-eye view. Using small rectangles, a.k.a. markers, the birds-eye view renders a scaled-down visual map of all differences. Each marker communicates the following information about its corresponding difference(s):

For instance, the birds-eye view depicted on the image to the left represents a comparison with:

It also shows the location of these differences as well as the currently selected difference—the first inline difference i.e. the first green marker.

Clicking on a birds-view marker scrolls the text editors to the location of the actual difference and selects it. With large files, containing tens of hundreds of differences, a single marker often represents more than one difference. Clicking on such a marker scrolls the editors to the first of these differences and selects it.

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