Philip Rhoades wrote:
> I live in vim and therefore use vimdiff most of the time for my needs > but I have a use case where I only want to diff on the FIRST field of > two files ie the files have lines that look like: > > [dir|file]name | [D|F] | mtime > > and I need to be able to have vimdiff only working on the [dir|file]name > and ignore the rest of the line - is this possible somehow? This is currently not possible. And it would be more than a bit of work to implement. At the same time, it can be very useful to be able to diff while ignoring some text. A first idea would be to define a pattern, replace the matched text with spaces, create the diff, then undo the replacement. Perhaps also highlight the ignored text. Optionally this would work the other way: replace the not-matched text with spaces. -- Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/202104011648.131Gm6XB1999673%40masaka.moolenaar.net.
