
If this is not the behaviour you desire, you can specify different line endings when you save a file, as described in the topic Saving Files. When using merging buttons to copy lines from one file to another, or when inserting text into a file in any other way, Merge changes the line endings (CR and/or LF characters) in the lines copied to the predominant line endings found in the destination file. This behaviour can be overridden by enabling the Allow editing of read-only files option. Likewise, delete buttons are not shown in read-only files.

īy default, merging buttons to replace, append and prepend a block are not displayed if the destination file is read-only. The merging button icon changes to indicate its operation when you press Ctrl, Shift, or Ctrl + Shift. To delete a block of lines, hold Ctrl + Shift and click the button.To insert the block of lines before the lines in the other file, hold Shift when you click.To insert the block of lines after the lines in the other file, hold Ctrl when you click.Click a merging button to make the lines replace the corresponding block of lines in the other file.

There is a small merging button at the top-right corner of each block of changed lines. In-place editingĪs well as the merging operations described below, you can always fine-tune by editing text in-place.

This article describes the merging process in detail. Merge provides a number of tools to enable you to quickly merge text files together to produce a file that can be saved.
