Visual Studio Code - is there a Compare feature like that plugin for Notepad

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Is there a Compare feature like the Plugin for Notepad

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Here is my favorite way  which I think is a little less tedious than the  Select for Compare  then Compare With     steps    Open the left side file  not editable  F1 Compare Active File With    Select the right side file  editable  - You can either select a recent file from the dropdown list  or click any file in the Explorer panel    This works with any arbitrary files  even ones that are not in the project dir  You can even just create 2 new Untitled files and copy paste text in there too

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In your terminal type   code --diff file1 txt file2 txt   A tab will open up in VS Code showing the differences in the two files

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I have Visual Studio Code version 1 27 2 and can do this  Compare two files  Drag and drop the two files into Visual Studio Code  Select both files and select Select for Compare from the context menu  Then you see the diff  With Alt F5 you can jump to the next diff   Compare two in-memory documents or tabs Sometimes  you don t have two files but want to copy text from somewhere and do a quick diff without having to save the contents to files first  Then you can do this   Open two tabs by hitting Ctrl N twice   Paste your first text sample from the clipboard to the first tab and the second text sample from the clipboard to the second tab Select the first document Untitled-1 with Select for Compare   Select the second document Untitled-2 with Compare with Selected   Then you see the diff

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right click on first file and select    then right click on second file and select    Screencast

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I found a flow which is fastest for me  by first associating a keyboard shortcut Alt k to  Compare Active File With       a     Similar to wisbucky s answer but further improved and more step-wise    Then  to compare two files    Open or focus file B  will be editable in compare view by default    E g  by drag-drop from File Explorer to VS Code s center  Open or focus file A  Press Alt k  a quick open menu will be shown with file B focused  Press Enter    Result  file A on left and file B on right    Tested on VS Code 1 27 1   Remarks   a - to do so  press Ctrl-k Ctrl-s to show Keyboard Shortcuts  type compare on the top search box  and double click the  Keybinding  column for  Compare Active File With      press Alt k then Enter to assign it

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If you want to compare file in your project directory with an external file  which is by the way the most common way I used to compare files  you can easily drag and drop the external file into the editor s tab and just use the command   Compare Active File With     on one of them selecting the other one in the newly popped up choice window  That seems to be the fastest way

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Right click on 1st file click  Select for compare     Click 2nd file click  Compare with selected

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You can compare files from the explorer either from the working files section or the folder section  You can also trigger the global compare action from the command palette

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Another option is using command line   code -d left txt right txt   Note  You may need to add code to your path first  See  How to call VS Code Editor from command line

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There is plugin called Partial Diff which helps to compare text selections within a file  across different files  or to the clipboard

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Here s a link to marketplace for extension  Extension  compareit  helps to compare two files wich you can choose from your current project and other directory on your computer or clipboard

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