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1 .TH VIMDIFF 1 "2001 March 30"
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2 .SH NAME
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3 vimdiff \- edit two, three or four versions of a file with Vim and show differences
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4 .SH SYNOPSIS
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5 .br
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6 .B vimdiff
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7 [options] file1 file2 [file3 [file4]]
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8 .PP
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9 .B gvimdiff
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10 .SH DESCRIPTION
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11 .B Vimdiff
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12 starts
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13 .B Vim
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14 on two (or three or four) files.
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15 Each file gets its own window.
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16 The differences between the files are highlighted.
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17 This is a nice way to inspect changes and to move changes from one version
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18 to another version of the same file.
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20 See vim(1) for details about Vim itself.
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21 .PP
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22 When started as
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23 .B gvimdiff
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24 the GUI will be started, if available.
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25 .PP
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26 In each window the 'diff' option will be set, which causes the differences
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27 to be highlighted.
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29 The 'wrap' and 'scrollbind' options are set to make the text look good.
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30 .br
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31 The 'foldmethod' option is set to "diff", which puts ranges of lines without
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32 changes in a fold. 'foldcolumn' is set to two to make it easy to spot the
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33 folds and open or close them.
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34 .SH OPTIONS
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35 Vertical splits are used to align the lines, as if the "\-O" argument was used.
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36 To use horizontal splits instead, use the "\-o" argument.
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37 .PP
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38 For all other arguments see vim(1).
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39 .SH SEE ALSO
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40 vim(1)
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41 .SH AUTHOR
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42 Most of
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43 .B Vim
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44 was made by Bram Moolenaar, with a lot of help from others.
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45 See ":help credits" in
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46 .B Vim.
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