Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Re: (g)vimdiff not working (?)

Hi dadkind!

On Mo, 24 Dez 2012, dadkind wrote:

> Hello All,
> On one of my computers (only one) diff doesn't seem to be working. (This is a 7.3.46 installation on a Windows 7 x64 machine).
>
> Usually, I select two files in Windows Explorer and right-click|"Diff with Vim" and things work as they should. I've also tried launching this from the command line with the same results.
>
> But on one of my computers, the two files open in their respective window (panels(?) in the main window) as expected, but all the code is "folded".
>
> If I expand the folded text, nothing is highlighted, and the tracking doesn't seem to be working.
>
> I looked at the options for the two windows and everything is as expected:
> "Cursorbind foldcolumn=2 helplang=En scrollbind
> diff foldmethod=diff scroll=11 nowrap "
>
> I use the same _vimrc and _gvimrc file on all my computers and I've tried deleteing the _viminfo file in my home drive.
>
> But still no highlighting. Again, this is happening only on one of my computers. I've even tried installing GnuWin version of Diff, but that didn't help.
>
> Any other suggestions on troubleshooting this?

is diff.exe actually working? Please test, that the expression above
:h E810 works (e.g. the commandlines works for you).

regards,
Christian
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Fremder unbequem, er aber in der Fremde überall zu Hause sei.
-- Goethe, Maximen und Reflektionen, Nr. 741

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