# The KDiff3 Handbook

Joachim Eibl `<joachim.eibl at gmx.de>`

Revision 0.9.84 (2004-05-29)

Copyright © 2002-2004 Joachim Eibl

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which

- compares and merges two or three text input files or directories,

- shows the differences line by line and character by character(!),

- provides an automatic merge-facility,

- has an editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,

- provides networktransparency via KIO,

- has options to highlight or hide changes in white-space or comments.

This document describes KDiff3-version 0.9.84.