Duplicates Tool Window

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The Duplicates tool window displays results of the search for duplicates.

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Panes of the Duplicates tool window
Left toolbar
Upper toolbar
Context menu commands

Panes of the Duplicates tool window

The window consists of the following panes:

The left pane displays the tree view of the duplicate fragments of source code. Each node shows the following information:
- The number of duplicated code fragments found in scope.
- The 'cost' of the duplicate (which is an arbitrary unit calculated using an additive algorithm on the base of the code block size; generally, the larger is the code fragment, the higher is its cost).
- The containing class where the duplicates are located.
The right pane shows the differences between the duplicated fragments of source code, selected in the left pane.

Left toolbar

Item	Shortcut	Description
	Rerun	Click this button to rerun the duplicates analysis in the active tab.
	Close Active Tab `Ctrl+Shift+F4`	Click this button to close the active tab.
	Autoscroll to Source	If the button is pressed, selecting an entry in the left pane opens the respective file in the editor.
	`F1`	Click this button to show reference.

Upper toolbar

Item	Tooltip/Image/Shortcut	Description
	`F7` / `Shift+F7`	Move to the nxt/previous difference
Whitespace		Use this drop-down list to define how the differences viewer should treat white spaces in the text. Do not ignore: white spaces are important, and all differences are highlighted. This option is selected by default. Trim whitespaces: `("\t", " ")` , if they appear in the end and in the beginning of a line. If two lines differ in trailing whitespaces only, these lines are considered equal. If two lines are different, such trailing whitespaces are not highlighted in the By word mode. Ignore whitespaces: white spaces are not important, regardless of their location in the source code. Ignore whitespaces and empty lines: the following entities are ignored: all whitespaces (as in the 'Ignore whitespaces' option) all added or removed lines consisting of whitespaces only all changes consisting of splitting or joining lines without changes to non-whitespace parts. For example, changing `a b c` to `a \n b c` is not highlighted in this mode.
Highlighting mode		Select the way differences granularity is highlighted. The available options are: Highlight words: the modified words are highlighted Highlight lines: the modified lines are highlighted Highlight split changes: if this option is selected, big changes are split into smaller 'atomic' changes. For example, `A \n B` vs. `A X \n B X` will be treated as two changes instead of one. Do not highlight: if this option is selected, the differences are not highlighted at all. This option is intended for significantly modified files, where highlighting only introduces additional difficulties.
	Jump to Source `F4`	Click this button to open the file in the active pane in the editor. The caret will be placed in the same position as in the Duplicates tool window.
	Synchronize scrolling	Click this button to simultaneously scroll both differences panes; if this button is released, each of the panes can be scrolled independently.
	Editor settings	Click this button to reveal the drop-down list of available check commands. Select or clear these check commands to show or hide line numbers, indentation guides, white spaces, and soft wraps. Note that same commands are duplicated in the context menu of the differences viewer gutter. Right-click the gutter to show the menu of check commands.

Context menu commands

Item	Keyboard Shortcut	Description
Jump to Source	`F4`	Open in the editor the file that contains the selected duplicate, and place the caret at the beginning of the duplicate. The fragment of code is highlighted.
Show Source	`Ctrl+Enter`	Open in the editor the file that contains the selected duplicate, and highlight the fragment of code.
Send to left/Send to right		Use these commands, or the arrow icons , to place the selected duplicate to the left or right pane of the differences viewer.