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Is there a sudoedit equivalent for vimdiff?
I'm trying to get into the habit of editing root-owned files with sudoedit, instead of sudo vim. This has a few advantages, one of which is that it uses my user's ~/.vimrc.
Is there an equivalent, ...
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Identify duplicate blocks of text within a file
Is there a convenient way to identify duplicate or near duplicate blocks of text within a file?
I want to use this for identifying code duplication. It looks like there are specialty programs with ...
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How to know if a text file is a subset of another
I am trying to find a way to predict if a text file is a subset of another..
For example:
foo
bar
is a subset of
foo
bar
pluto
While:
foo
pluto
and
foo
bar
are not one a subset of each ...
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Make vimdiff display different lines as different lines (not partially different)
vimdiff has an annoying habit of displaying two almost-completely-different lines as the same partially-different line just because they share a character in common at the beginning or end.
For ...
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How can I see moved lines in a file comparison with vimdiff / diff?
Moved lines are frequently annotated as deletes and adds but they can be shown as moved-from and moved-to instead.
Like in this screenshot of Notepad++.
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vimdiff disable/enable color coding
Is there any way to quickly disable/enable color coding in vimdiff ? The problem is, I have colored text in vim and the text is invisible is the text-color is Red, and the vimdiff too tries to put a ...
