Re: diff highlights remain and can not be overwritten

Am 2015-05-11 12:16, schrieb Rick Howe:
> Hi,
>
> I recently found that diff highlights have not allowed to be
> overwritten since this patch.
> 7.4.682 search and match highlighting replace cursorline highlighting
>
> I have posted diffchar.vim plugin
> (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4932) for a year.
> This plugin traces the exact differences and show them by overwriting
> on diff highlights.
>
> Please see attached. after_diff.png is an example of just after diff
> mode. Text in red background and bold/italic/underline is the
> difference which vim displays. And then, before 7.4.682, %SDChar will
> show the exact differences as pre7.4.682. But after 7.4.682, it
> becomes like post7.4.682. The bold/italic/underline can not be
> overwritten and remains.
>
> I would like to ask you if this patch is reasonable or not. I am a bit
> surprised at such a sudden change of the behavior anyway. Yes, I
> should be able to do my best but not have a perfect workaround.

You might want to raise your voice at vim-dev, where this
issue has just been raised:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/BOAkHUFophc/JUGfDY82_hcJ

Best,
Christian

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