I faced this issue a few times, so I thought I will ask here. When I am done with the vimdiff mode, I normally just close the windows or switch to other files. The problem is that Vim seems to remember that those buffers participate in the diff mode, so the next time I start a new vimdiff on other buffers, the previous buffers start participating, and this results in a mess as more than likely those buffers are unrelated.
The documentation says the 'diff' setting is local to window, so closing the windows show cancel the setting out, but when I try the below sequence on two related files say, x.old and x.new, it seems otherwise. :sp x.new :vert diffsplit x.old :q :q :sp x.new :vsp x.old At the end, you have the same two files opened in the same side-by-side view, but I didn't expect them to have the diff mode on. Can anyone explain why and what I should do to avoid this (other than remembering to run :diffoff before closing, or doing a :bufdo diffoff later). -- Thanks, Hari __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
