On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 8:57:45 AM UTC-6, Gary Johnson wrote: > I _think_ I understand what you want, but I don't know of a way to > make Vim's internal comparison algorithm do that. > > Either of these two Linux commands will generate an output of only > the lines common to file1 and file2, if that helps. > > diff --changed-group-format= file1 file2 > comm -12 file1 file2 > > The comm command requires that the two files be sorted, but that's > what you have.
Hi Gary, That's insightful but is the side-by-side comparison I was hoping for in vim so I could visually assess how the collections differed. Thanks for the follow up. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
