Re: [ann] New plugin to use patience diff algorithm for vim

On Do, 05 Mär 2015, Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Mi, 04 Mär 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > On 2015-02-25, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I made a new plugin to make Vim understand unified diffs.
> > >
> > > This allows to generate diffs using the patience algorithm which might
> > > provide better readable diffs. This really depends on the changes and
> > > will not always provide better results but at least this allows to
> > > easily switch between different diff algorithms.
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Thanks so much for doing this. I often deal with messy merges, so I
> > am looking forward seeing the improved diff results. Of course I
> > haven't had to do any messy ones since I installed your plugin.
> >
> > I think I've found a bug. When I start vimdiff from the command
> > line with the option
> >
> > --cmd 'set diffopt+=iwhite'
> >
> > then execute
> >
> > :PatienceDiff
> > :diffu
> >
> > I get the error message
> >
> > EnhancedDiff: git diff not found in path, aborting!
> >
> > That message is not accurate. The real reason that the call to
> > s:DiffInit() fails (at line 109 of autoload/EnhancedDiff.vim) is
> > this:
> >
> > Vim(call):E121: Undefined variable: g:diffargs
> >
> > There is only one occurrence of g:diffargs in your plugin, and
> > that's at line 40 of autoload/EnhancedDiff.vim. I think that
> > variable is supposed to be s:diffargs. Renaming it fixes the
> > problem.
> >
> > I'm using EnhancedDiff.vim version 0.2 and Vim 7.4.640.
>
> Thanks! I am fixing it now and will upload a new version.

BTW: If anybody has an example of some messy diff, where you'd like to
manually align the diffs, I would appreciate a copy. I am thinking of
adding the possibility to let the user manually align the diffs, so that
the resulting diff would look nicer.

Best,
Christian
--
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Das ist wohl eher Joeys Satz.
-- Oliver Zendel

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