Monday, June 9, 2014

Re: vimdiff noob question

On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:18:11 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Sunday, June 8, 2014 9:01:25 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Can Vim open these files correctly without using diff mode?
>
> What directory do these files live in? You're not falling victim to Windows' refusing to actually edit stuff in "Program Files" and such without admin rights, or not actually using the real System32 folder for 32-bit processes, are you?

Thanks for looking into this some more.
I can open and edit vim files as usual when not in diff mode.
a.txt and b.txt files are in C:\Users\wolf\Documents\
What does that mean? - "using the real System32 folder for 32-bit processes"
The vim was install with all options in their default values.

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