On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > The last two lines are now identical (they only contain the word > »rows«), but vimdiff (in the current version) does not show this. > > (This is an artifical case, ordinarily the last line contains many > words, so it is not easy to spot if they are actually identical). > > To really see the a proper diff, you need to save the changed file, > quit vim and rerun the vimdiff command from above.
Can't you just run ":diffupdate" instead? Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB