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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Overview of the New File Compare Feature in Dreamweaver 8
  3. Installing WinMerge on Windows
  4. Windows: Configuring Dreamweaver 8 to Recognize Your Diff/Merge Utility
  5. Installing FileMerge on OS X
  6. Mac: Configuring Dreamweaver 8 to Recognize Your Diff/Merge Utility
  7. Performing Your First File Compare

Configuring Third-Party File Compare

Mac: Configuring Dreamweaver 8 to Recognize Your Diff/Merge Utility

Configuring Dreamweaver to detect the file compare application you have installed on Mac is very similar to Windows, with one major difference: Instead of pointing to the application file, you must select the command-line tool that launches the diff utility.

  1. In Dreamweaver, select Dreamweaver > Preferences.
  2. Select File Compare in category list.

  3. Click the Browse… button. On Mac, instead of browsing to the application file, Dreamweaver requires that you put it to a command-line utility that can invoke the file compare utility. In this case, browse to /usr/bin/opendiff, and click the Open button.

    Browsing to and selecting the command-line utility that can invoke the file compare utility

    Figure 15. Browsing to and selecting the command-line utility that can invoke the file compare utility

  4. A path to the opendiff command-line utility will display. Click OK to accept changes.

    The File Compare preferences dialog box with the path to the the command-line utility that can invoke the file-compare utility

    Figure 16. The File Compare preferences dialog box with the path to the the command-line utility that can invoke the file-compare utility

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