The vimdiff tag has no usage guidance.
1
vote
4answers
119 views
Comparing files with vimdiff from a script
I'm writing a script to compare two directories recursively and run vimdiff when it finds a difference:
#!/bin/bash
dir1=${1%/}
dir2=${2%/}
find "$dir1/" -type f -not -path "$dir1/.git/*" | while ...
2
votes
1answer
30 views
Vim and unified diffs
In my daily work, I only deal with unified diffs, so I would like to define the alias
alias diff='diff -puN'
in my .zshrc.
This alias is not respected when I use the shell from the vim command ...
0
votes
2answers
93 views
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, ...
5
votes
1answer
364 views
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 ...
5
votes
3answers
895 views
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 ...
5
votes
3answers
282 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
415 views
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++.
9
votes
4answers
5k views
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 ...
