Re: Perform diff as exact line match

On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 8:57:45 AM UTC-6, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I _think_ I understand what you want, but I don't know of a way to
> make Vim's internal comparison algorithm do that.
>
> Either of these two Linux commands will generate an output of only
> the lines common to file1 and file2, if that helps.
>
> diff --changed-group-format= file1 file2
> comm -12 file1 file2
>
> The comm command requires that the two files be sorted, but that's
> what you have.

Hi Gary,
That's insightful but is the side-by-side comparison I was hoping for in
vim so I could visually assess how the collections differed.

Thanks for the follow up.

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