Re: vimdiff noob question

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:02:00 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 08/06/14 07:18, wolfv wrote:
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> > On Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:32:14 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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> >> On 07/06/14 21:11, wolfv wrote:
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> >>> I am following the example in the vim user manual: 08.7 Viewing differences with vimdiff
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> >>> My vimdiff is either broken or I am not understanding something.
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> >>> In this example, a.txt has serveral lines of text.
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> >>> I open vimdiff from the command prompt:
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> >>> vim -d a.txt~ a.txt
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> >>> ~
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> >>> ~
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> >>> ~
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> >>> ~
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> >>> vimdiff displays both files as having no lines, and there are no folds.
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> >>> Is this how vimdiff is supposed to work? I was expecting to see some text.
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> >>> If I save the file (:w) at this point, the file is overwritten with an empty file.
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> >>> Otherwise vimdiff seems to work normally; I am able to insert text into a.txt and save it.
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> >>> This is my first attempt learning vimdiff and I appreciate your advice.
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> >>> Thank you.
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> >> In order for vimdiff to work, you need to have where Vim can find it
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> >> (usually in your $PATH, or maybe in $VIMRUNTIME) a diff program which
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> >> understands the arguments that vimdiff will send it to find the
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> >> differences between the files. This is usually the case if you run on a
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> >> Unix-like OS, including Linux, Mac OSX, BeOS, etc. On Windows it may or
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> >> may not be the case.
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> >> See in particular ":help diff-diffexpr" and the last paragraph before
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> >> ":help diff-patchexpr" (without the double quotes in both cases).
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> >> Best regards,
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> >> Tony.
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> >> --
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> >> meeting, n.:
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> >> An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or
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> >> department not represented in the room must solve a problem.
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> > Thanks Tony. My path environment checks out.
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> > The vim install has C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\diff.exe
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> > and PATH environment has variable:
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> > ;C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\
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> > I am running vim 7.4 on Windows 7.
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> > What else can I trouble shoot?
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> I'm not sure. Some programs (including Vim) sometimes have difficulties
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> with paths containing spaces. Could you find out the 8.3 form of that
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> "Program Files (x86)" directory name? It ought to be something like
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> PROGRA~1 or PROGRA~2. Then you could replace the long name by the 8.3
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> name in the $PATH environment variable. There should be no ill effects:
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> at worst, nothing will change; at best, the problem will disappear.
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> You can get that 8.3 name in Vim by typing
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> :echo fnamemodify('C:\Program Files (x86)', ':8')
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> see
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> :help fnamemodify()
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> :help filename-modifiers
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> Best regards,
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> Tony.
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> --
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> Your program is sick! Shoot it and put it out of its memory.

Thank you for the suggestion Tony.
I put ;PROGRA~2 in the Environment variable path, but it made no difference.

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