Line by line comparison feature

[pauvt]

It be very useful to be to force winmerge to compare a text file contents line by line, rather than it try and auto align the differences.

In the following example I want to auto-merge the three files but winmerge can't because in some of the files I've added a new line.

Am I missing something or is this a bug/improvement?

[sdottaka]

It's not a bug, but it needs improvement.

You can get the same result with the diff3 command.
kdiff3 (http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/) seems to do this well.

[sdottaka]

With the application of the PR #1051, the above example can now be auto-merged without conflicts when the 'Match similar lines' option is enabled.