Re: Gurus: Line by line comparison of two files (NOT [vim]diff)

People,


On 2013-04-14 05:26, Erik Falor wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 07:19:46AM -0400, Salman Halim wrote:
>> On Saturday, April 13, 2013, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>
>>> People,
>>>
>>> With two text files open in vertical panels, I would like to be able
>>> to
>>> cursor around on the left side file and for the same (or nearly the
>>> same
>>> line) to be centred and highlighted on the right side . .
>> I might be simplifying it a bit, but how about going to the top of
>> both
>> files and executing:
>>
>> :windo set cursorbind scrollbind cursorline
>>
>> It seems to me that this would keep both files in sync and highlight
>> the
>> current line in both windows.
>
> This seems like it should work, but I find that in Vim >= 7.3.547 the
> other window's cursorline highlight is not updated until I do one of:
> 1. Focus the other window
> 2. :redraw!
>
> This is the case for me even when I disable 'lazyredraw'.
>
> :windo set nolazyredraw cursorbind scrollbind cursorline
>
> A regular :redraw isn't enough, either. I must add the bang to get
> the effect. Is there possibly another setting that I'm not thinking
> of that could play a part in this?


Not quite what I want but interesting.

Thanks,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

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Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

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