Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-07-07 Thread David Fishburn
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Ben Fritz fritzophre...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 10:01:31 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 2:20:06 PM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote: Now, what I _really_ want it to do is this: C:\Vim\vim74\gvim.exe --servername

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-07-07 Thread Ben Fritz
On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 7:47:58 AM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Ben Fritz fritzophre...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with both --remote-expr and --remote-send is if that Vim instance is not already running, you get an error: $ gvim.exe

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-07-06 Thread Ben Fritz
On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 10:01:31 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 2:20:06 PM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote: Now, what I _really_ want it to do is this: C:\Vim\vim74\gvim.exe --servername gDiff  +:RemoteDiffFiles %1 In other words, do not let Vim edit the

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-07-06 Thread Ben Fritz
On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 2:20:06 PM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote: Now, what I _really_ want it to do is this: C:\Vim\vim74\gvim.exe --servername gDiff  +:RemoteDiffFiles %1 In other words, do not let Vim edit the file, but pass the filename in as a argument to my command. That's

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-07-03 Thread David Fishburn
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Ben Fritz fritzophre...@gmail.com wrote: ... (Adapted from a .bat file I use in my send to menu on Windows, for choosing files one at a time for diff). This is my first time trying to use Windows SendTo with Vim. I created a SendTo short cut and created

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-06-18 Thread David Fishburn
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:57 AM, John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: David Fishburn wrote: I use gVim for diffing from my source control system using: gvim.exe -O -d file1.txt file2.txt I avoid problems by working in Vim. I use some external tool to generate a list of files I want

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-06-18 Thread Ben Fritz
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 7:52:53 AM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:57 AM, John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: David Fishburn wrote: I use gVim for diffing from my source control system using: gvim.exe -O -d file1.txt file2.txt I avoid problems

Re: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-06-18 Thread Ben Fritz
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 9:58:35 PM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote: Windows 8.1 64-bit using a 32-bit gVim 7.4.1-729. I use gVim for diffing from my source control system using: gvim.exe -O -d file1.txt file2.txt This works great. I was hoping to extend this a bit.

RE: Diff mode via Tabs

2015-06-18 Thread John Beckett
David Fishburn wrote: I use gVim for diffing from my source control system using: gvim.exe -O -d file1.txt file2.txt I avoid problems by working in Vim. I use some external tool to generate a list of files I want to diff, then paste it into a temporary buffer in Vim. Either the external tool