Re: VimDiff printing - close but no cigar

Ben,


On 2012-10-13 01:56, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Friday, October 12, 2012 6:02:57 AM UTC-5, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-10-11 02:51, Ben Fritz wrote:
>> >
>> > Recent version of TOhtml will convert a side-by-side diff into
>> HTML
>> > as you would expect. You can event tell it to use javascript to
>> allow
>> > showing/hiding context. See :help :TOhtml.
>> >
>> > Probably you can then print the resulting HTML file to get your
>> final
>> > desired result.
>>
>> The problem is that the files contain long lines - after the HTML
>> conversion, the long lines in the browser are viewable by using the
>> scroll bars at the bottom of each panel but when printed, the lines
>> are
>> truncated ie only the stuff on the screen with the scroll bars at
>> hard
>> left are printed.
>>
>
> Oh yuck. I don't know of a good way around that. Either you accept
> truncated lines, or you turn on word wrapping and risk a misaligned
> diff. If you're lucky the diff will still align correctly and the
> word
> wrapping will solve your problem.


I should have said - I did try that but the output in html is still
long lines.


> Try converting again after doing a
> ":let g:html_pre_wrap=1". Normally it defaults to the same value as
> your 'wrap' option, which is off for good reason during a diff, but
> this will force it on.


I still get long lines in the output . .

Thanks,

Phil.

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