VIMDIFF(1)

✨ VIMDIFF(1) ✨ — vimdiff 💖

okay so vimdiff is literally the bestie for comparing files 🎀 It's the vimdiff manual page, and it's giving edit between two and eight versions of a file with Vim and show differences 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS

vimdiff [options] file1 file2 [file3 [file4 [file5 [file6 [file7
[file8]]]]]]

gvimdiff

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so vimdiff starts Vim on two up to eight files, and each file gets its own window 🪟✨ The differences between the files get highlighted, so it's a total vibe for inspecting changes and moving changes from one version to another version of the same file 🔥

see vim(1) for details about Vim itself 💜

when you start it as gvimdiff, the GUI will be started, if it's available 🧚

in each window the 'diff' option gets set, which causes the differences to be highlighted 🌈 The 'wrap' and 'scrollbind' options are set so the text looks good 💅 The 'foldmethod' option is set to "diff", which puts ranges of lines without changes in a fold 🫶 And 'foldcolumn' is set to two so it's super easy to spot the folds and open or close them 🙈

🎀 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 ✨

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 💜

bestie, that's the whole page 😭 Vim source and manual, dated 2021 June 13, and the header that says VIMDIFF(1) 🌈 you're literally a Unix legend now 🧚💖