Re: vimdiff case insensitive

Am 2014-07-03 11:18, schrieb marco restelli:
> 2014-07-03 11:08 GMT+0200, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com>:
>> 2014-07-03 10:58 GMT+0200, marco restelli <mrestelli@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all,
>>> this seems a simple question but I can not find any reference: is
>>> it possible to have a case insensitive comparison with vimdiff?
>>
>> OK, I think it is
>>
>> set diffopt+=icase
>
> Sorry for keeping replying to my own thread, but now there is another
> detail that I don't understand. Consider the following example, having
> set diffopt=filler,icase:
>
> 1) if I have two buffers with one line each:
> buffer 1 -> abc this IS a TEST
> buffer 2 -> this IS a TEST
>
> the characters abc in buffer 1 are highlighted (this is what I would
> expect)
>
> 2) same two buffers, with
> buffer 1 -> abc this IS a TEST
> buffer 2 -> this is a test
>
> now the complete lines are highlighted in both buffers, while I would
> like to have highlighted only abc, as in the first case.
>
> Is it possible to have 2) behave exactly like 1), highlighting only
> abs, regardless of the case of the remaining words?

This is probably caused by the diff command detecting it as 1 deleted
line
and 1 added line instead of 1 changed line.

I don't think, there is much Vim can do here.


Best,
Christian

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