Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Arun
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7:46:51 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > No plugin required, provided that you have a Vim compiled with +diff > > and that the diff utility is installed and can be found on your $PATH. > > > > See ":help

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 10:55:25 AM UTC-6, Gary Johnson wrote: > There's also sdiff: > > sdiff file1 file2 | less > > or > > sdiff file1 file2 | vim - That worked brilliantly! Thanks. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-06-29, arocker wrote: > >> diff --changed-group-format= file1 file2 > >> comm -12 file1 file2 > >> > > > That's insightful but is the side-by-side comparison I was hoping for in > > vim so I could visually assess how the collections differed. > > > > Pipe into less? E.g. comm

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Tim Chase
On 2018-06-28 18:30, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Does a means or plugin exist to perform a diff between two > tabs/files that compares entire lines? I've occasionally hacked this by inserting a unique tag (usually just an incrementing number) after each line in the file, something like :windo

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread arocker
>> diff --changed-group-format= file1 file2 >> comm -12 file1 file2 >> > That's insightful but is the side-by-side comparison I was hoping for in > vim so I could visually assess how the collections differed. > Pipe into less? E.g. comm -12 file1 file2 | less -- -- You received

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 8:57:45 AM UTC-6, Gary Johnson wrote: > I _think_ I understand what you want, but I don't know of a way to > make Vim's internal comparison algorithm do that. > > Either of these two Linux commands will generate an output of only > the lines common to file1 and file2,

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-06-29, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7:46:51 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > No plugin required, provided that you have a Vim compiled with +diff > > and that the diff utility is installed and can be found on your $PATH. > > > > See ":help diff.txt" > > Hi

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7:46:51 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > No plugin required, provided that you have a Vim compiled with +diff > and that the diff utility is installed and can be found on your $PATH. > > See ":help diff.txt" Hi Tony, Specifically, I need to match lines completely

Re: Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-28 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Does a means or plugin exist to perform a diff between two tabs/files that > compares entire lines? > > Thanks. No plugin required, provided that you have a Vim compiled with +diff and that the diff utility is installed and can be found

Perform diff as exact line match

2018-06-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Does a means or plugin exist to perform a diff between two tabs/files that compares entire lines? Thanks. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit