Re: Changing the scope of 'diff' to something more granular?

On 2020-04-25 15:08, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 04:09:48PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> >While this is functional (and less bad within a tmux session), is
> >it possible to narrow the scope of a :vimdiff to a vim-tab so that
> >I can have a single vim session with multiple file-diff pairs
> >within?
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding, why don't you open the new diff pair
> in a new tab?

Well dang. That does work. I misread/misunderstood the text at

:help 'diff'

which says that the setting is "local to window". In my
(mis-conceived) tests, opening a new vim window (:sp) from a diff'ed
window resulted in a windo that had 'diff' set, leading me to
(mis-)understand "window" as a vim-session not a vim-window. Had I
properly tested, I would have noticed that after a ":sp" on a diffed
window, I could then

:set nodiff

on one of those and it was in fact scoped to a vim-window not a
vim-session.

Reading up at ":help start-vimdiff" it does indeed say that "Diffs
are local to the current tab page" which is exactly what I wanted
and just failed to find/understand.

Thanks for setting me straight!

-tim




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