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Diff mode, delicious! Just edit the 2 files with vim -O file1 file2, and in vim do <ESC>:diffthis<enter>C-w<right>:diffthis<enter>, and voila! Vimgrep and the

Diff mode, delicious! Just edit the 2 files with vim -O file1 file2, and in vim do <ESC>:diffthis<enter>C-w<right>:diffthis<enter>, and voila! Vimgrep and the quickfix window are also pretty cool.

dllthomas 8y ago
:diffoff is another great thing to know, particularly when using vimdiff to merge things (e.g. in git). I find that turning diffing off and on for various windows can more quickly give a clear picture of what changed where.