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Resolution: Obsolete
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Windows 7.x, 8.x.
Beyond Compare 3.x or 4.x.
Description
From Visual Studio (and other tools, but lets take Visual Studio as an exampl here), I've configured the diff integration to always append the /solo argument.
What this does is very nifty: it starts a new instance of Beyond Compare for each call (otherwise it will first look for an existing Beyond Compare instance open then a new compare/merge tab in the first instance it founds).
It comes in especially handy when you have multiple instances of Visual Studio open:
The net result of /solo is that if you press Esc or Alt-F4 to get out of Beyond Compare, you immediately return to the Visual Studio session you started the compare/merge from.
Without /solo you will not return to Visual Studio (you need to find which instance of Visual Studio called it by pressing Alt-Tab, or moving over your task bar).
From the Beyond Compare docs at http://www.scootersoftware.com/help/command_line_reference.html
Command Line Switches
Note Linux users should prefix the switches with "-" instead of "/".
Switch Meaning /solo Forces a new instance of the program.