User Commands VIMDIFF(1)
NAME
vimdiff - edit two, three or four versions of a file with
Vim and show differencesSYNOPSIS
vimdiff [options] file1 file2 [file3 [file4]]
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 avail-
able. 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. OPTIONSVertical splits are used to align the lines, as if the "-O"
argument was used. To use horizontal splits instead, usethe "-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.ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes: SunOS 5.10 Last change: 2001 March 30 1 User Commands VIMDIFF(1)_______________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
|____________________|__________________|_
| Availability | editor/vim ||____________________|__________________|_
| Interface Stability| Uncommitted ||____________________|_________________|
NOTES Source for vim is available on http://opensolaris.org. SunOS 5.10 Last change: 2001 March 30 2