John Beckett, 09.03.2009: > > Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > It's perhaps a bit strange to use ":diffthis!" to start diff > > mode in other windows. ":diffall" would be more obvious. > > It's not symmetric with ":diffoff" vs ":diffoff!", but that > > one doesn't say "this". > > > > What do you all think about using ":diffall" instead? > > There is already quite a bit of "history" in Vim, so I would prefer to > NOT introduce a new command.
If :diffthis wouldn't yet exist, I'd definetly prefer :diffon[!] and :diffoff[!]. But now I also prefer :diffthis!. A new command :diffall is probably a bit confusing, since we would end up with 3 commands (this|off|all) for 2 (or 4) actions (diff on/off). I just though, if we treat :diffthis as "diff this window" and :diffthis! as "diff this tab", then the "this" in the latter command doesn't seem so linguistic strange any more. > The following looks logical to me: > > " Go to window 1 > :diffthis > " Go to window 2 > :diffthis > > " Remove diff from all visible windows > :diffoff! > > " Apply diff to all visible (normal) windows > :diffthis! This is my preferred solution, too. Markus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
