@Ali Syed (NS DevTools QA) Think we could get "Compare with file from Account..." and "Compare with object from Account..." options in the IDE tools? These options would prompt for the environment I want to compare against.
Currently, if I'm working on a file and I want to compare it with the file that's running in production, I have to change my default account for the project to production, then compare the file. Hopefully I remember to change my default account back to the sandbox I was working in before I upload the file that I'm working on.