vimdiff Questions
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Sometimes while editing three files using vimdiff I want to copy a hunk from one file to both of the other two. Normally this would be accomplished like so:
:diffput 2
:diffput 3
However, :help ...
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I am using vimdiff for the first time. Online I found written that to move from the left pane you use CTRL + w + Left or right arrow
This does not work for me. But I see that if I press just CTRL +...
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git difftool --tool=vimdiff --no-prompt HEAD~1 HEAD
git will open vim with two temporary files on the left and right side. Is there a way to force open the repo file on the right so that I can mod...
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I am new to this, so apologies about the basic question.
I am using an Ubuntu environment. I have git installed. I setup vimdiff as the merge tool.
I am testing the environment, but I am having a...
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I'm using vim -d file1 file2 in order to see the differences between them. This works fine, but I want to ignore whitespace changes - they are irrelevant for source code files.
Vim help states th...
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When diffing 2 files in VIM, I prefer the lines to be wrapped. However, vimdiff sets wrap to off by default.
Is there a way to set line wrap automatically for every diff?
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I'm using vimdiff from VSCode's bash terminal. How do I go to the other window in vimdiff. Typically ctrl+w + right/left arrow is used to switch from one side to another. But VSCode capture ctrl+w ...
Inkster asked 16/9, 2022 at 19:10
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When I run git difftool --tool-help or git mergetool --tool-help, I see:
vimdiff
vimdiff1
vimdiff2
vimdiff3
What are these different "versions"? I assume they all start Vim with differe...
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How to load a different colorscheme when doing vimdiff.
I want this because the my current colorscheme does not show some diffs properly in vimdiff, For. eg some diff is shown with same fg/bg col...
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I've configured Vim as git difftool in .gitconfig
[diff]
tool = vimdiff
If there are changes in N files, i have to close vim (:qa) to see the next diff.
How do i navigate to the next/previous ...
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I setup git diff to wrap into vimdiff, using "Git Diff with Vimdiff" as a guide, and it's working as expected unless there are many files with changes.
When there are multiple files with changes ...
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So the utility Diff works just like I want for 2 files, but I have a project that requires comparisons with more than 2 files at a time, maybe up to 10 at a time. This requires having all those fil...
Rosner asked 2/7, 2009 at 17:36
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diff has an option, -I regexp, which ignores changes that just insert or delete lines that match the given regular expression. I need an analogue of this for the case, when changes are between two ...
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I did :vert diffsplit file1.txt, then realized I didn't want to diff it but a different file. So I closed one window with :q and turned off the diff highlighting with :diffoff.
I then tried :vert...
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I am having trouble getting vimdiff to work on a Windows 10 machine. I am running vim from Powershell. Powershell is also declared in $myvimrc as my shell of choice:
set shell=C:\WINDOWS\system32\...
Quinquevalent asked 5/6, 2019 at 14:31
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How do I do this? After doing changes via git config I can diff my staged and committed changes with vimdiff but when I do git show I still see the diff in old plain style. How do I make this work ...
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while giving the dp command in vimdiff it replaces the entire block(2 lines) with pink colour on left hand side file to right hand side file.
In that block if i want to merge only the second line....
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I am using vim with the fugitive extension. It has a :Gdiff command which brings you into vimdiff mode, but what is the right/quick way to close/quit vimdiff mode?
I.e., let's say I am editing the...
Casabonne asked 24/4, 2010 at 7:45
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I'm using CLI mergetool vimdiff and rather than going line by line and typing :diffg RE for every change to select the REMOTE version, is there a way I can just have the REMOTE version of the entir...
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I am new to unix and need some help here.
I have two directories present on two different server. both the directories contains the same files. Now i want to check if all files are in sync in both ...
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I have 2 large files to take vimdiff. In vimdiff output I want to ignore lines showing diff but have a particular word.
e.g. in my case I want to ignore diff of all lines with prefix WARNING: in m...
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After forking a Github repository I performed some changes in it. This was quite some time back, now the upstream branch is well ahead. Thus I wanted to merge those remote changes into my forked re...
Ezzell asked 3/5, 2018 at 17:32
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There seems to have been a change in git which makes it no longer work correctly with gvim as the diff tool. Specifically, I always used to use the gvim -geometry flag to maximize the window. Now, ...
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So I am new to using vimdiff, however I feel like there is some error. Whenever I try to choose the changes from the remote repository with the command:
:diffg RE
I get the error:
E93: More tha...
Drogin asked 25/7, 2018 at 13:54
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I've have two files opened. They are opened in vertical mode, next to next. Can I instantly diff these two files without leaving or closing Vim ?
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