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No, no hate . And thanks for pursuing it.

Good news! Your persistence paid off: it's a bug. It manifests itself in scenarios your posted but only for the second diff or any diff after that. The fix will appear in the next build.

Yes, it's the same logic for all ignored lines.

I solved the problem using the alternative syntax "--stdin=$INPUTFILEPATH", but why the previous argument didn't work?

Because EDP does not support this syntax, which typically is not an issue since most command line tools dealing with files would accept file path.

Perhaps although I'm pretty sure we already looked into implementing this and, for whatever reason, did not. We'll have another look.

Yes, I see what you mean, and I'm sure I answered this question before. Here's what I get: Blank Lines 1.png So yes, since blank lines are ignored, the diff algorithm doesn't care about them, and they are added to respective spots after comparison. The way it does it is like this: the blank line in ...

Hmm, I get a different result:

If it's the process you described, you could write two scripts, one for .DOC files and the other for .PDF, using, say, sed, and use them as additional plug-ins for these respective file types (Options | Tools | Plug-ins).

No, there's really no way to do it in EDP. If there was a tool that converts linebreaks within sentences to spaces, it could be used as a plug-in in EDP, but I don't know of such tool.

We are going to have a fix for this (XP-only) issue in the next build.

It seems broken for me on XP. Do you see the arrow button when you hover of an arrow in grouping mode? I don't see it in XP, but it works fine without grouping.

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Could you try the latest build, before we have to set up the XP text box?

Got your files but still can't reproduce. What button did you click? It's not clear from the screenshot.

The build from skanthak is a lot smaller, so we'll update the plug-in when it becomes available (hopefully it will). If not, after some time we'll have to use the "official" build.