| VIMDIFF(1) VIMDIFF(1) |
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| NAME |
| vimdiff - edit two, three or four versions of a file with Vim and show |
| differences |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| vimdiff [options] file1 file2 [file3 [file4]] |
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| gvimdiff |
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| 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. |
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| See vim(1) for details about Vim itself. |
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| When started as gvimdiff the GUI will be started, if available. |
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| In each window the 'diff' option will be set, which causes the differ- |
| ences 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. |
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| 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. |
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| For all other arguments see vim(1). |
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| SEE ALSO |
| vim(1) |
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| AUTHOR |
| Most of Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, with a lot of help from others. |
| See ":help credits" in Vim. |
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| 2001 March 30 VIMDIFF(1) |
