Bug 303266

Summary: enhance eclipse compare to honore column limitation
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: frankar
Component: CompareAssignee: Platform-Compare-Inbox <platform-compare-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: pawel.pogorzelski1
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description frankar CLA 2010-02-18 21:17:18 EST 
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RDz uses Eclipse Compare infrastructure for all Compares - Host file or Local - and Eclipse compare editors know nothing about columns - so its not possible to introduce a column specific or column restricted compare in the current infrastructure .
A customer is requesting this function

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Pawel Pogorzelski CLA 2010-02-19 04:51:32 EST 
Please specify more detailed steps/description as the limitation is not clear.
Comment 2 Pawel Pogorzelski CLA 2010-02-19 04:52:33 EST 
And please set the Version field appropriately.
Comment 3 frankar CLA 2010-03-15 14:55:47 EDT 
In the preferences - LPEX - compare - select column restricted comparison 
this preference is not being honored in the eclipse comparison  

If you start up a compare with local history  and you had a change in column 73 
eventhough you have restricted comparison selected the line will be marked as difference.
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:31:20 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.