NAME¶
vimdiff - edit two, three or four versions of a file with Vim and show
differences
SYNOPSIS¶
vimdiff [options] file1 file2 [file3 [file4]]
gvimdiff
DESCRIPTION¶
Vimdiff starts
Vim on two (or three or four) files. Each file gets
its own window. The differences between the files are highlighted. This is a
nice way to inspect changes and to move changes from one version to another
version of the same file.
See
vim(1) for details about Vim itself.
When started as
gvimdiff the GUI will be started, if available.
In each window the 'diff' option will be set, which causes the differences to be
highlighted.
The 'wrap' and 'scrollbind' options are set to make the text look good.
The 'foldmethod' option is set to "diff", which puts ranges of lines
without changes in a fold. 'foldcolumn' is set to two to make it easy to spot
the folds and open or close them.
OPTIONS¶
Vertical splits are used to align the lines, as if the "-O" argument
was used. To use horizontal splits instead, use the "-o" argument.
For all other arguments see
vim(1).
SEE ALSO¶
vim(1)
AUTHOR¶
Most of
Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, with a lot of help from others.
See ":help credits" in
Vim.