Re: Vimdiff with multiple buffers

On 2016-01-22, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi Simon!
>
> On Fr, 22 Jan 2016, Simon Ruderich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 02:53:04PM -0500, Ven Tadipatri wrote:
> > > Hmm...I guess I should have read the manual first.
> > > :diffget <number>
> > > seems to do the trick. So to answer my own question, I would do
> > > :diffget 1 for the one on the left
> > > and :diffget 3 for the one on the right.
> > > But if anyone has any other useful pointers for using vimdiff, I would
> > > appreciate it.
> >
> > You can use the count argument for dp an do, e.g. 1dp and 2do,
> > see :h dp
> >
> > I'd really like to get better support for changes inside a line
> > in Vimdiff. At the moment Vimdiff doesn't create minimal changes
> > in this case. I recall there was a plugin which helped with that,
> > but I forgot its name. Anybody has an idea?
>
> linediff?

I'm surprised you didn't mention EnhancedDiff
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5121). I don't
think it looks inside lines, but it does a significantly better job
than the standard diff at aligning blocks of changed lines.

Regards,
Gary

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