Eric Leenman wrote:
I'm having the same problem, and the three solutions don't work for me. In all the three solutions (and even the other thread I started with your reply windo diffthis) doesn't work. What happens is that one window folds the complete file to one line. The other window keeps the file open as it was.
Let's start from scratch. Say you have two files, old.txt and new.txt, where they are similar but different. You run: gvim -d old.txt new.txt You should see the two files side-by-side. Groups of lines that are identical are folded. Differences are highlighted. Each vertical split has a fold column (grey by default) down the left side. Does the above work? When you follow Tony's advice, do you see the same fold column in each split? If not, you need to switch to the split missing the fold column and type ':diffthis'.
I was expecting somekind of Winmerge behaviour.
Winmerge can do some great stuff, but Vim differencing of two file is better because Vim folds lines that are the same. John
