2014-07-03 21:05 GMT+0200, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>: > Hi marco! > > On Do, 03 Jul 2014, marco restelli wrote: > >> 2014-07-03 11:40 GMT+0200, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>: >> > Am 2014-07-03 11:18, schrieb marco restelli: >> >> 2014-07-03 11:08 GMT+0200, marco restelli <[email protected]>: >> >>> 2014-07-03 10:58 GMT+0200, marco restelli <[email protected]>: >> >>>> Hi all, >> >>>> this seems a simple question but I can not find any reference: is >> >>>> it possible to have a case insensitive comparison with vimdiff? >> >>> >> >>> OK, I think it is >> >>> >> >>> set diffopt+=icase >> >> >> >> Sorry for keeping replying to my own thread, but now there is another >> >> detail that I don't understand. Consider the following example, having >> >> set diffopt=filler,icase: >> >> >> >> 1) if I have two buffers with one line each: >> >> buffer 1 -> abc this IS a TEST >> >> buffer 2 -> this IS a TEST >> >> >> >> the characters abc in buffer 1 are highlighted (this is what I would >> >> expect) >> >> >> >> 2) same two buffers, with >> >> buffer 1 -> abc this IS a TEST >> >> buffer 2 -> this is a test >> >> >> >> now the complete lines are highlighted in both buffers, while I would >> >> like to have highlighted only abc, as in the first case. >> >> >> >> Is it possible to have 2) behave exactly like 1), highlighting only >> >> abs, regardless of the case of the remaining words? >> > >> > This is probably caused by the diff command detecting it as 1 deleted >> > line >> > and 1 added line instead of 1 changed line. >> > >> > I don't think, there is much Vim can do here. >> >> OK, thank you Christian, then I think the best solution is to copy the >> two files, pass both of them to lowercase with u in visual mode and >> use the standard diff. > > If you don't mind changing your buffer, create a custom filterwritepre > command that filters your buffer through tr (works only on unix or > within a cygwin environment, e.g. something like this: > > fu! ConvertLower() > %!tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" > endfu > > aug MyDiff > au! > au FilterWritePre file* call ConvertLower() > aug end > > Adjust the pattern file* to your filenames. If you are on windows, > replace the tr part by > :%s/.*/\L&/
Hi Christian, yes, this works, thanks! Marco -- -- 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 http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
