Re: (g)vimdiff not working (?)

On 24/12/12 20:28, dadkind wrote:
> Hello All,
> On one of my computers (only one) diff doesn't seem to be working. (This is a 7.3.46 installation on a Windows 7 x64 machine).
>
> Usually, I select two files in Windows Explorer and right-click|"Diff with Vim" and things work as they should. I've also tried launching this from the command line with the same results.
>
> But on one of my computers, the two files open in their respective window (panels(?) in the main window) as expected, but all the code is "folded".
>
> If I expand the folded text, nothing is highlighted, and the tracking doesn't seem to be working.
>
> I looked at the options for the two windows and everything is as expected:
> "Cursorbind foldcolumn=2 helplang=En scrollbind
> diff foldmethod=diff scroll=11 nowrap "
>
> I use the same _vimrc and _gvimrc file on all my computers and I've tried deleteing the _viminfo file in my home drive.
>
> But still no highlighting. Again, this is happening only on one of my computers. I've even tried installing GnuWin version of Diff, but that didn't help.
>
> Any other suggestions on troubleshooting this?
>
> Thanks!!
>

If diff is working as expected, but with no highlighting, then maybe on
that computer you've got no syntax highlighting, or a different colorscheme?

1. Look near the middle of the output of the :version command to see
where Vim looks for a "system vimrc file" and/or a "system gvimrc file".
Check if these files exist on your various systems, and if they do, what
they contain.

2. :echo syntax_on
This data item should exist with value 1. If this is not the case you
lack a ":syntax on" statement somewhere in your vimrc.

3. :echo colors_name
This data item may or may not exist. If it doesn't (and syntax_on has
the value 1), you're using Vim's default colours. If it does, it is the
name of the colorscheme currently in use. In the latter case, check the
"colors" subdirectory (if it exists) of all directories (if they exist)
named in the 'runtimepaths' option, in the order they are listed, for a
file of that name plus .vim — the first one found is the colorscheme
actually being used. Unlike for other kinds of plugins, for colorschemes
Vim does *not* take account of any additional |after-directory| (q.v.)
once it has found a colorscheme of the desired name.


Best regards,
Tony.
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