1 2 3 4VIMDIFF(1) VIMDIFF(1) 5 6 7NAME 8 vimdiff - edit two or three versions of a file with Vim 9 and show differences 10 11SYNOPSIS 12 vimdiff [options] file1 file2 [file3] 13 14 gvimdiff 15 16DESCRIPTION 17 Vimdiff starts Vim on two (or three) files. Each file 18 gets its own window. The differences between the files 19 are highlighted. This is a nice way to inspect changes 20 and to move changes from one version to another version of 21 the same file. 22 23 See vim(1) for details about Vim itself. 24 25 When started as gvimdiff the GUI will be started, if 26 available. 27 28 In each window the 'diff' option will be set, which causes 29 the differences to be highlighted. 30 The 'wrap' and 'scrollbind' options are set to make the 31 text look good. 32 The 'foldmethod' option is set to "diff", which puts 33 ranges of lines without changes in a fold. 'foldcolumn' 34 is set to two to make it easy to spot the folds and open 35 or close them. 36 37OPTIONS 38 Vertical splits are used to align the lines, as if the 39 "-O" argument was used. To use horizontal splits intead, 40 use the "-o" argument. 41 42 For all other arguments see vim(1). 43 44SEE ALSO 45 vim(1) 46 47AUTHOR 48 Most of Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, with a lot of help 49 from others. See ":help credits" in Vim. 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 2001 March 30 1 65 66 67