Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-21 Thread Efraim Yawitz
I've heard some interesting answers to my original question, but I'm still not sure if all these other programs (meld, kdiff3, etc.) are just front ends to the cmdline diffutils or separate diff programs. I'm generally happy with vim's diff support, but I was wondering if there is a more powerful

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Reid Thompson
Nicolas Aggelidis wrote: > An interesting topic > > What diff application fellow vimmers use? > > i use vimdiff and sometimes meld or the integrated diff application of > smartsvn... > > > vimdiff xxdiff --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 05:14:05 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote: > >Well, I use the diff program as included in my SuSE distribution, >either from the command-line, or implicitly from vimdiff (my 'diffexpr' >option is empty). I suppose there is nothing extraordinary in this. > >"diff --version" replies w

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Nicolas Aggelidis
> diff/merge operation that Vim+diff.exe can't handle. I checked out the > home page for meld...it didn't look like there is a Windows version. > Anybody know better? I wouldn't mind giving it a shot. Hi Ben, i don't think there is a Windows version for meld... --~--~-~--~~-

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Ben Fritz
On Jul 20, 11:06 am, Francisco Dibar wrote: > I find Winmerge for windows great! > > http://winmerge.org/downloads/ WinMerge is pretty good, but I haven't found anything that it offers over vimdiff. Kdiff3 has 3-way merge, a feature that is rather lacking in the default Vim install and not pre

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Francisco Dibar
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Ben Fritz wrote: > I'm running on a Windows system, and absolutely love kdiff3 for any > diff/merge operation that Vim+diff.exe can't handle. I checked out the > home page for meld...it didn't look like there is a Windows version. > Anybody know better? I wouldn'

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Ben Fritz
On Jul 20, 6:45 am, wormwood_3 wrote: > I tried kdiff3 for a while, but I've found meld faster, more attractive, and > easier to read quickly. That's if I have a desktop GUI around, without which > vimdiff is the standby. > I'm running on a Windows system, and absolutely love kdiff3 for any

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Matt Wozniski
ost on this mailing list. ___ > From: Nicolas Aggelidis > To: vim_use@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:22:46 PM > Subject: Re: slightly OT: other diff programs > > > An interesting topic > > What diff application fellow vimmers use? > >

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 20/07/09 01:22, Nicolas Aggelidis wrote: > > An interesting topic > > What diff application fellow vimmers use? > > i use vimdiff and sometimes meld or the integrated diff application of > smartsvn... Well, I use the diff program as included in my SuSE distribution, either from the comman

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-20 Thread wormwood_3
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Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-19 Thread Nicolas Aggelidis
An interesting topic What diff application fellow vimmers use? i use vimdiff and sometimes meld or the integrated diff application of smartsvn... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://w

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-19 Thread Efraim Yawitz
I just found it interesting to find a utility which is considered 'perfect' by its creators. On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM, wrote: > > >Is this because there is nothing left to be done, or for some > other > >reason? > Well, in an open source world, projects are allowed to be done

Re: slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-19 Thread vimml
>Is this because there is nothing left to be done, or for some other >reason? Well, in an open source world, projects are allowed to be done some time. No need to convince people to buy versions the don't need. ;) But to your question: I like using $ vimdiff a b Kai -- All mail cl

slightly OT: other diff programs

2009-07-19 Thread Efraim Yawitz
Since I use the diff features in Vim so much, I find myself wondering if the gnu diffutils are the state-of-the-art programs in this area or is there something better? I notice that diffutils hasn't been updated since 2002 (and there doesn't even seem to be a diff mailing list to write this to). I