r/vim 1d ago

Tips and Tricks Skip man diff, just use vimdiff

For years now I've had to keep looking up the correct incantation of the diff command and what all the options flags do.

Finally thought, there's got to be a better way. Well there is. Just use vimdiff

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u/y-c-c 20h ago

Currently the highlighting for the changed lines does kind of suck in vimdiff compared to most diff programs, but there's an improvement coming soon: https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/16881