Re: vimdiff noob question

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 7:34:30 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 09/06/14 02:39, wolfv wrote:
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> > On Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:04:55 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote:
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> >> On Sunday, June 8, 2014 12:18:24 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote:
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> >>>
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> >>> Thanks Tony. My path environment checks out.
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> >>>
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> >>> The vim install has C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\diff.exe
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> >>> and PATH environment has variable:
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> >>> ;C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\
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> >>>
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> >>> I am running vim 7.4 on Windows 7.
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> >>> What else can I trouble shoot?
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> >>
>
> >> Check your diffexpr setting. In particular, if you do not have at least Vim 7.4.103, the diffexpr installed by default is incorrect.
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> >>
>
> >> Either update your Vim install to at least patchlevel 103, or see here if you just want to copy the new default diffexpr: http://superuser.com/a/697914/233630
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> >
>
> > Thanks Ben. I installed gvim-7-4-256.exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/
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> > It was installed with the default _vimrc file.
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> > But it made no difference.
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> >
>
> > Attached are three screen shots of what my vimdiff is doing.
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> > Here is the weird part: after opening a.txt in vimdiff and closing vimdiff (I did not save or do anything while in vimdiff), I open a.txt shows that a.txt is empty.
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> >
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> > Otherwise vim works normally.
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> >
>
>
>
> Do you get the same problem when you don't use a filename which usually
>
> means a backup of the other file? Let's say "vim -d a.txt b.txt"?
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>
>
> See
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> :help 'backup'
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> :help 'backupext'
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> :help 'writebackup'
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> :help 'backupcopy'
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>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tony.
>
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Same results with:
>vim -d a.txt b.txt
where a.txt and b.txt contain different text on every line.
both files end up empty.

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