Winmerge - block as a single difference

Question

Please have a look at the screen shot below:

Why is the following Text highlighted yellow: This is a Test2. The text appears in both files.

I have found a quote from the following website: http://manual.winmerge.org/Intro_diffs.html. The quote is: "it's also useful to treat an entire block of lines as a single difference". Therefore I am wandering if a block is being treated as a single difference. Where is this configured?

Answer 1

WinMerge compares by lines, and treats a block of lines that have differences as a single difference. You don't configure that, per se. That's not your problem.

Your problem is that Test2.txt doesn't finish with a carriage return.

So WinMerge compares This is a Test2\r\n with This is a Test2<eof> and these are different.

(And note how WinMerge treats the rest of the lines in Test1.txt as 'a single difference').

Confirmed with WinMerge 2.14.0.0