Vscode: Allow to compare 3 files

[sguillia]

VS Code allows to easily compare two files by choosing Select for compare and Compare with selected.

But we can only select two files.

diff3, kdiff3 and vimdiff do the job but I would prefer it integrated into VS Code.

This would be helpful!

Edit: would also be nice to be able to compare 4 files 😄 vimdiff and diffuse do

[vscodebot[bot]]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Compare 2 files with multi selection (#23547)
• Compare Selected should not be in the context menu when one of the selected item is a folder (#42575)
  

[sguillia]

I asked on Stack overflow beforehand if any extension already does the job.

My post got downvoted and voted for close.

The issue reporter suggests to ask questions on stack overflow with VS Code tag, and I didn't want to request a feature that an extension already provides.

Could anyone explain me what I did wrong??

[beastdestroyer]

Eh nothing's wrong, it's more of Stack Overflow's community guidelines, they want you to be as relevant as possible (hence the tag problem the reporter said) and make sure you search as thoroughly as possible, and try to be as specific as possible (I understand what you meant), and if you want it integrated into VSCode as a Feature Request, then it's fine to post your idea here!

[dbaeumer]

Asking for 3 way diff support.

[fokep]

Diff on four (4) files would be great as well! It would REALLY help to justify the purchase ("investment towards productivity increase") of a 34" 3440x1440 monitor

Yes. n files. We might need two n of those monitors (for productivity).

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Happy Coding!