Efficiently manage the differences between two files using vim.
Project description
Opens two files in vimdiff and provides single-stroke key mappings to make moving differences between two files efficient. Up to two additional files may be opened at the same time, but these are generally used for reference purposes.
Usage
vdiff [options] <file1> <file2> [<file3> [<file4>]]
Options
- -v, --vim
Use vim (rather than default).
- -g, --gvim
Use gvim (rather than default).
- -f, --force
Edit the files even if they are the same.
- -q, --quiet
Issue only error messages.
- -h, --help
Print this helpful message.
Relevant Key Mappings
Ctrl-j |
Move down to next difference |
Ctrl-k |
Move up to previous difference |
Ctrl-o |
Obtain difference |
Ctrl-p |
Push difference |
{ |
Update file1 to match file2 |
} |
Update file2 to match file1 |
S |
Save any changes in all files and quit |
Q |
Quit without saving any file |
= |
Make all panes the same size and rotate between them |
+ |
Update differences |
Defaults
Defaults will be read from ~/.config/vdiff/config if it exists. This is a Python file that is evaluated to determine the value of three variables: vimdiff, gvimdiff, and gui. The first two are the strings used to invoke vimdiff and gvimdiff. The third is a boolean that indicates which should be the default. If gui is true, gvimdiff is used by default, otherwise vimdiff is the default. An example file might contain:
vimdiff = 'gvimdiff -v' gvimdiff = 'gvimdiff -f' gui = True
These values also happen to be the default defaults.
As a Package
You can also use vdiff in your own Python programs. To do so, you would do something like the following:
from inform import Error
from vdiff import Vdiff
vdiff = Vdiff(lfile, rfile)
try:
vdiff.edit()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
vdiff.cleanup()
except Error as err:
err.report()
Installation
Runs only on Unix systems. Requires Python 3.5 or later. Install by running ‘./install’ or ‘pip3 install vdiff’.
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