On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 4:28:55 PM UTC-5, Charles Campbell wrote: > FlashBurn wrote: > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 3:09:58 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt > > wrote: > >> On Do, 12 Feb 2015, FlashBurn wrote: > >> > >>> I'm running gVim 7.4 on Windows 7. I've never used vimdiff command > >>> before and decided to use it now and as it turns out diff.exe is > >>> missing. Does anybody have the same issue? Is there a special flag I > >>> need to be using during compilation to have this executable? > >> A diff is distributed along with Vim. It should sit in your vim/vim74 > >> directory. > >> > >> Best, > >> Christian > >> -- > >> In Städten glaubt man, es gehöre zum guten Ton, nicht einmal zu > >> wissen, wer in demselben Hause wohnt. > >> -- Adolph Freiherr von Knigge > > Somehow I don't have it. > > > I'm not aware of a diff program that is distributed with vim; perhaps > some windows bundler does that. Its not in the vim74.tar.bz2, though. > > I suggest getting a diff -- try looking for one using Google/Yahoo/etc. > Using Yahoo and searching for "diff Windows" yielded > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm . > > Regards, > Chip Campbell
I think I figured it out. If you compile (g)Vim then diff.exe doesn't come with it, if you use a installer then diff.exe comes with it. So I've installed a gVim in a different directory using the installer, extracted the diff.exe and uninstalled gVim. I would have used gnuwin32 diff, but I wasn't able to figure out how to setup 'diffexpr' setting. My gVim kept complaining that it couldn't create diffs even though I specified a correct path to gnuwin32 diff. I think it had to do something with slashes in Windows, but I just didn't have time to figure it out. Thanks for the help everyone. -- -- 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.
