On 2014-07-10, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Gary! > > On Mi, 09 Jul 2014, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On one of the Linux machines on which I run Vim we run a backup > > program which creates hourly and nightly backups of each user's home > > directory in ~/.snapshot. The problem is that when I try to view > > the differences between a file and its backup copy using vimdiff, > > vimdiff resolves both file names to the same file. > > > > For example, the following command, > > > > $ vimdiff -N -u NONE -i NONE > > .snapshot/nightly.0/.configfiles/profile.common .configfiles/profile.common > > > > creates two vertically-split windows, but both windows contain the > > same file, .snapshot/nightly.0/.configfiles/profile.common. > > > > I can view the differences by using just diff instead, > > > > $ diff .snapshot/nightly.0/.configfiles/profile.common > > .configfiles/profile.common > > > > and ls also shows them to be different files: > > > > $ ls -l .snapshot/nightly.0/.configfiles/profile.common > > .configfiles/profile.common > > -rwx------ 1 gary gary 3523 Jul 9 13:09 .configfiles/profile.common > > -rwx------ 1 gary gary 2992 Jul 7 10:07 > > .snapshot/nightly.0/.configfiles/profile.common > > > > This seems like a bug. > > > > I'm running 7.4.283 on Fedora 17 Linux. > > Is there an easy way to reproduce the issue? It somehow sounds, like > Vim is thinking the second argument as a directory and uses the same > file again. What happens, if you swap the arguments?
Swapping the arguments causes vimdiff to open .configfiles/profile.common in both windows. In both cases, vimdiff opens the first file in both windows. I'll work on a way to reproduce it. Thanks, Gary -- -- 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.
