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Side by Side Control to edit texts

edited July 13 in Writing

Dear Zettlers,

are you aware of a good writing app that allows to control differences side-by-side? I found BBedit, but I perhaps, there is something better that you are aware of?

Live long and prosper
Sascha

I am a Zettler

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  • @Sascha said:
    Dear Zettlers,

    are you aware of a good writing app that allows to control differences side-by-side? I found BBedit, but I perhaps, there is something better that you are aware of?

    Live long and prosper
    Sascha

    Seems to be a lot of on-line checkers for comparing various types of files, including text files, but I don't know of any app (on your computer) that does that. Maybe Gitfox, which I see on my Setapp subscription. It looks like it will do what you want, but I've never used it.

  • edited July 13

    For windows you can use winmerge, but you probably have a mac

  • edited July 13

    @Sascha

    Try this link for MacOS file compression and diff tools.

    https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/mac-file-comparison-tools/

    I also have heard about:

    Beyond Compares, pretty good, but it's ugly as hell

    And

    Kaleidoscope five has a lot of polish but it gets confused sometimes.

  • You might want to have a look at Sublime.

    https://www.sublimetext.com/

  • For the Mac, I've used several file-comparison tools like Perforce's P4Merge or FileMerge (part of Xcode) and tried a few like Changes or Kaleidoscope, but in the end I always return to BBEdit's diff tool (which can be also invoked from the command line). And, while working with text windows, I esp. like BBEdit's commands "Compare Two Front Windows", "Compare Against Disk File" and "Compare Against Previous Version…" which I use every day.

  • Many thanks for your suggestions! I will look into it.

    My goal is to improve the editing environment and integrate AI-feedback, while making up for the potential detraining using AI.

    I am a Zettler

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