Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-12 Thread wolfv
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 8:43:13 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:04 PM, wolfv wrote: > > > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:02:12 PM UTC-6, wolfv wrote: > > >> On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:24:29 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > > >> > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:29:07 PM U

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-12 Thread Benjamin Fritz
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:04 PM, wolfv wrote: > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:02:12 PM UTC-6, wolfv wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:24:29 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: >> > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:29:07 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: >> > > > Can you use vimdiff, from C:\Users\wolf\Documents

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread wolfv
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:02:12 PM UTC-6, wolfv wrote: > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:24:29 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:29:07 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > > > Can you use vimdiff, from C:\Users\wolf\Documents (rather than My > > > > Documents)? > > > > > > I a

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread wolfv
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:24:29 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:29:07 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > > Can you use vimdiff, from C:\Users\wolf\Documents (rather than My > > > Documents)? > > > > I am using Windows 7. > > From Command Prompt: > > C:\Users\wolf\Docume

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread Ben Fritz
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:29:07 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > Can you use vimdiff, from C:\Users\wolf\Documents (rather than My > > Documents)? > > I am using Windows 7. > From Command Prompt: > C:\Users\wolf\Documents>vim -d a.txt b.txt > This pops up: > C:\PROGRA~2\Vim\vim74\vim.exe is

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread wolfv
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:01:21 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-06-11 12:33, wolfv wrote: > > > The only reason I use vimdiff from the command prompt is because > > > that is how the tutorial does it. Otherwise I always launch gVim > > > from the taskbar. Is there a way to run vimdiff f

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread wolfv
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:12:55 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:33:57 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > From Command Prompt: > > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents>gvim -N -u NONE -U NONE -i NONE -O > > a.txt b.txt > > This message pops up: > > Location is not ava

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread Ben Fritz
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:33:57 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > From Command Prompt: > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents>gvim -N -u NONE -U NONE -i NONE -O a.txt > b.txt > This message pops up: > Location is not available > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents is not accessible. >

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-06-11 12:33, wolfv wrote: > The only reason I use vimdiff from the command prompt is because > that is how the tutorial does it. Otherwise I always launch gVim > from the taskbar. Is there a way to run vimdiff from the taskbar > gVim? If you highlight two files in your File Explorer and ri

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread wolfv
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:48:15 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 4:49:26 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > > > I manually set a.txt and b.txt to contain unique lines of text. > > In what program? Vim? Notepad? > > > Then from Command Prompt: > > gvim -O a.txt b.txt > > op

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-11 Thread Ben Fritz
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 4:49:26 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > I manually set a.txt and b.txt to contain unique lines of text. In what program? Vim? Notepad? > Then from Command Prompt: > gvim -O a.txt b.txt > opens gvim showing both files as empty. This tells me that Vim is somehow not fin

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-10 Thread wolfv
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:04:19 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:44:29 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > Both gvim diff and vim diff causes a.txt and b.txt to become empty: > > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents>vim -d a.txt b.txt > > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents>gvim -d a

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-10 Thread Ben Fritz
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:44:29 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > Both gvim diff and vim diff causes a.txt and b.txt to become empty: > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents>vim -d a.txt b.txt > C:\Users\wolf\My Documents>gvim -d a.txt b.txt > Same with --noplugin option: > C:\Users\wolf\My

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-10 Thread wolfv
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:58:18 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:42:08 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > > > Here is a detailed play-by-play of me opening files in vim (screen shots > > are attached): > > Thanks! > > > > > I open files a.txt and b.txt in vim (non-diff mode). >

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-10 Thread Ben Fritz
On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:42:08 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > Here is a detailed play-by-play of me opening files in vim (screen shots are > attached): Thanks! > > I open files a.txt and b.txt in vim (non-diff mode). Ok, it looks like this was using gvim. E.g., from the command-line, "gvim -o a

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-09 Thread Ben Fritz
On Monday, June 9, 2014 11:59:04 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > Thanks for looking into this some more. > I can open and edit vim files as usual when not in diff mode. Including the files you're diffing? And they're not empty when you edit them outside of diff mode? > a.txt and b.txt files are in C

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-09 Thread wolfv
On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:18:11 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Sunday, June 8, 2014 9:01:25 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > > > Same results with: > > >vim -d a.txt b.txt > > where a.txt and b.txt contain different text on every line. > > both files end up empty. > > Can Vim open these files corr

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-09 Thread Ben Fritz
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 9:01:25 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > Same results with: > >vim -d a.txt b.txt > where a.txt and b.txt contain different text on every line. > both files end up empty. Can Vim open these files correctly without using diff mode? What directory do these files live in? You'

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-08 Thread wolfv
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 7:34:30 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 09/06/14 02:39, wolfv wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:04:55 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: > > >> On Sunday, June 8, 2014 12:18:24 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Thanks Tony. My path environment checks out. > > >

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-08 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 09/06/14 02:39, wolfv wrote: On Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:04:55 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: On Sunday, June 8, 2014 12:18:24 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: Thanks Tony. My path environment checks out. The vim install has C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\diff.exe and PATH environment has variable:

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-08 Thread Ethan Hereth
Ethan Alan On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:39 PM, wolfv wrote: > On Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:04:55 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: >> On Sunday, June 8, 2014 12:18:24 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: >> > >> > Thanks Tony. My path environment checks out. >> > >> > The vim install has C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\d

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-08 Thread wolfv
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:02:00 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 08/06/14 07:18, wolfv wrote: > > > On Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:32:14 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > >> On 07/06/14 21:11, wolfv wrote: > > >> > > >>> I am following the example in the vim user manual: 08.7 Viewing > >>

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-08 Thread Ben Fritz
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 12:18:24 AM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: > > Thanks Tony. My path environment checks out. > > The vim install has C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\diff.exe > and PATH environment has variable: > ;C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\ > > I am running vim 7.4 on Windows 7. > Wha

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-08 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 08/06/14 07:18, wolfv wrote: On Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:32:14 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 07/06/14 21:11, wolfv wrote: I am following the example in the vim user manual: 08.7 Viewing differences with vimdiff My vimdiff is either broken or I am not understanding something.

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-07 Thread wolfv
On Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:32:14 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 07/06/14 21:11, wolfv wrote: > > > I am following the example in the vim user manual: 08.7 Viewing differences > > with vimdiff > > > My vimdiff is either broken or I am not understanding something. > > > > > > In this exa

Re: vimdiff noob question

2014-06-07 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 07/06/14 21:11, wolfv wrote: I am following the example in the vim user manual: 08.7 Viewing differences with vimdiff My vimdiff is either broken or I am not understanding something. In this example, a.txt has serveral lines of text. I open vimdiff from the command prompt: vim -d a.