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Setting Delta Preferences

You can set preferences for how the Delta Show Differences window appears. You can specify the fonts used in one or both panes and you can specify how white space is seen in Delta.

You can set font preferences as follows:

  • Define the font for elements that are identical
  • Define the font for elements that are different
  • Define the font for elements that only exist on the left side
  • Define the font for elements that only exist on the right side
  • Restore defaults

Font menu

The following window shows the normal font. This window is the same for other font definitions.

Font dialog

You can define how white space appears. If one area contains spaces and the other contains tab characters, Delta treats this as a difference. Though this is not a difference that affects other functions of the code, it is still a difference.

  • Click None to treat each difference in white space as a difference.
  • Click Leading to ignore all white space characters at the start of a line.
  • Click All to ignore white space characters throughout each line: at the beginning, between words and at the end. Multiple white space characters between words are treated as one.

Whitespace menu

Note

Delta defines white space as space or tab characters only.