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hence vimdiff a file comparsion tool targeted towards the cli environment. I'm wondering if it offers functionality to swap line of codes between two tabs?
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Is there a way/tool to show differences between two files side by side only highlighting differences in a similar way kdiff3 does that but with a tool that is reasonably fast?A similar question was ...
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I'm comparing two files in vimdiff. For one section of the code in the first file, the same section in the second file has several lines of code added, and then a slightly modified copy of the section ...
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I've never worried about vimdiff on my own computer, where I have archlinux installed, so everything is up-to-date, generally speaking; I generally just used it, and I'm fine with it. After all, :...
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I use git on a regular basis for collaboration with other people. When we work together on a shared repository, I'd like to be able to view the changes performed by others which happened between my ...
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Saying that I have two files: a.txt and b.txt. The content of a.txt: hello world The content of b.txt: hello world something else Of course I can use vimdiff to check their difference, I can make ...
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I'm merging two branches in a project, which both changed the same part of some files in different ways. The "remote" branch is somewhat closer to the common ancestor ("base"), so I want to only show ...
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I am comparing a list of packages for a Django project in production and development. There are inconsistency in versions, but I am only concerned about the packages that got installed independently ...
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When I compare the below 2 files its comparing it wrongly. How to compare? All the rows are available in the file2 but its not working. When I do a "vim -d a b" its showing like the values are missing ...
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Is there a way we can exclude the lines which are same in the below output? I did a vim -d file1 file2 but its showing the differences and also some additions lines before and after the differences. ...
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I have 2 tables which I need to compare and display the differences. I am able to do that using the following command: vim -d table1 table2 -c :TOhtml -c :wqa The problem I am facing is it's ...
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I am comparing 2 files in a script and exporting to html file (Below is the syntax i am using). When the file get saved, its saving in a name called Diff.html by default. Is there a way we can save it ...
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(I'm running into this in a context of using vimdiff, which relies on and interprets the output of diff, so I think this is a diff question.) Given these files, the first having 2 lines, the second ...
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I added few vim plugins like sytastic, nerdTree. They change the status line and other UI elements, which works fine while editing files. But when I invoke vimdiff on 2 files, the nerdTree pane also ...
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Is there a stable tool (option/plugin of an existing tool: vimdiff, diff, etc) in Linux to do diff between two text files characterwise? I would like to see the longest common subsequence between my ...
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I am trying to compare two command output (no files) vimdiff "$(tail /tmp/cachain.pem)" "$(tail /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem)" I tried playing with redirection, pipe, and vim - -...
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I'm writing a script to compare two directories recursively and run vimdiff when it finds a difference: #!/bin/bash dir1=${1%/} dir2=${2%/} find "$dir1/" -type f -not -path "$dir1/.git/*" | while ...
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In my daily work, I only deal with unified diffs, so I would like to define the alias alias diff='diff -puN' in my .zshrc. This alias is not respected when I use the shell from the vim command line ...
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I'm trying to get into the habit of editing root-owned files with sudoedit, instead of sudo vim. This has a few advantages, one of which is that it uses my user's ~/.vimrc. Is there an equivalent, ...
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Is there a convenient way to identify duplicate or near duplicate blocks of text within a file? I want to use this for identifying code duplication. It looks like there are specialty programs with ...
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vimdiff has an annoying habit of displaying two almost-completely-different lines as the same partially-different line just because they share a character in common at the beginning or end. For ...
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Moved lines are frequently annotated as deletes and adds but they can be shown as moved-from and moved-to instead. Like in this screenshot of Notepad++.
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Is there any way to quickly disable/enable color coding in vimdiff ? The problem is, I have colored text in vim and the text is invisible is the text-color is Red, and the vimdiff too tries to put a ...
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