[Feature request]: Add support for diff compare

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[Feature request]: Add support for diff compare

IgorKrupenja opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Not sure if it can be easily implemented but would be amazing if this plugin also supported comparing two binary files using VSCode's compare feature.

stef-levesque · Answer 1 · Sat Oct 06 2018 05:52:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Unfortunately, "buffer" editors cannot be compared, this seems to be a VSCode limitation.

But, you can copy the content of an hexdump into files, and compare them.

Conrad Sollitt · Answer 2 · Tue May 12 2020 06:57:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the suggestion! After reading this I just used the copy/paste method along with WinMerge to compare binary files.

I see this topic was last updated in 2018 so hopefully a new API or future API will allow for comparing two buffers.

And thanks for HexDump it's currently my hex viewer of choice when I've needed a hex viewer in the past year.