Kaleidoscope's Text Comparison offers three ways of viewing the changes between two text documents: Fluid, Blocks and Unified.
You can switch between the Fluid, Blocks and Unified views by using one of the following methods:
Fluid layout compresses empty spaces providing a natural reading experience while reviewing changes.
Unified layout interleaves your possible choices on the left with your final output on the right, providing a concise, readable way to merge.
To search in the Text Scope:
You can move to the next or previous change by using one of the following methods:
If you are using a track pad with gesture support, you can use the "Three Finger Swipe to Navigate" gesture to go to the next and previous changes. Make sure that this gestures is enabled in the System Preferences (Trackpad > More Gestures > Swipe between pages, ensure the "three finger" option is included).
There are various options to further customize the text view to your liking, like font and size choices, options to wrap long lines, show or hide line numbers, and more. You find them in the View menu and many of them also in the bottom left toolbar area for even quicker access. New windows will always use the default behavior defined in the Text Scope Preferences. Choose Kaleidoscope > Preferences > Text to set your preferences.
You can choose to ignore leading, trailing and line-ending whitespace differences by default. To set the whitespace preference:
Kaleidoscope > Preferences… > Text > Whitespace
To turn whitespace ignoring on or off per document, use the Ignore Whitespace button in the bottom toolbar or the menu entry in View menu.
Kaleidoscope only uses the Ignore Whitespace setting in the normal Text Scope. It is not applicable to Folder Scope comparisons, merges or changeset documents.