Re: vim-diff

On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 10:57:17 AM UTC-5, sinbad wrote:
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> ben, yes i was looking at exactly what you explained.
> i want to align certain lines in both files. i'm little surprised
> that nobody thought of this as there is no plugin available.
> thanks for writing the plugin. i'll try out and let you know.

OK, if you want to try the proof-of-concept, go ahead. But it's not really ready yet, since only one alignment is supported and you must know which file will be v:fname_in and which will be v:fname_new. I'm going to clean it up to support:

1. Multiple alignment points
2. Auto-detecting which alignment points apply to which file in the diff
3. User-configurable mapping to set an alignment point in a window
4. User-configurable mapping to clear an alignment point in a window
5. Command to clear all alignment points on the tab page
6. Warn when number of alignment points in each file in the diff don't match each other and ignore alignments in one file without a corresponding one in the other
7. Sign column showing the alignment points

For the sign column, I'm leaning toward showing a sorted index number of the alignment position, since then I could also use an optional count to the "add alignment" and "delete alignment" mappings to move/remove specific ones. This would limit the total number of aligned positions to 99; I assume this would be acceptable?

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