What is E-meld?
e-meld is an open source differencing and merging tool designed for developers to compare and merge text files. It can compare files like source code, XML, HTML, and other text documents, highlighting the differences between two or three versions.
Some key features of e-meld include:
- Syntax highlighting for over 30 programming and markup languages like Python, JSON, HTML, etc.
- Built-in 3-way merge comparisons to combine changes between multiple versions of a file
- Options to ignore whitespace changes so you can focus on actual code changes
- Intuitive visual diffs with color coding for added, modified, and deleted content
- Flexible diffing algorithms like histogram, patience diff, and Myers diff
- Support for side by side, unified diff, and inline difference views
With its specialized diff views and merge capabilities aimed at developers, e-meld provides advanced file and textual comparison capabilities for integrating changes to source code and other text documents efficiently.