Re: Vimdiff, version 7.4 on Windows 7

On Monday, August 12, 2013 10:16:34 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Monday, August 12, 2013 7:59:03 AM UTC-5, Marcio Gil wrote:
> > I installed vim 7.4 today. Now the "Diff with vim" option don't work.
> > E810: Cannot read or write temp files
> > E97: Cannot create diffs
>
> As Tony suggested, check the value you have for 'diffexpr'.
>
> I just did a fresh install of Vim 7.4 and did:
>
> gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE
> :source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
>
> This actually leaves 'diffexpr' empty.
>
> I was then able to view a diff without seeing any error messages.
>
> Vim is also using the correct 'diff.exe' distributed with Vim:
>
> :!start cmd
> C:\Users\btfritz>where diff
> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim74\diff.exe
>
> I guess probably your diffexpr is not correct.

From later discussion, it came out that the culprit was not vimrc_example.vim but rather $VIM/_vimrc.

So I retested. This also works fine with the installed 7.4 copy:

gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE
:source $VIM/_vimrc

Here, 'diffexpr' is actually set to something. But apparently the issue has been resolved.

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