vimdiff and MacVim

vim macvim vimdiff

Antonio · Oct 28, 2009 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

I'd like to run vimdiff on MacVim. Is there an easy way I'd be able to do it?

Answer

If you have the mvim script installed (it is in the dmg, just put it somewhere in your PATH), you can just type in a shell:

mvim -d file1 file2

You can alias this to mvimdiff if you like.

In macvim, like in vim , you can also use:

:e file1
:diffsplit file2
or
:vert diffsplit file2

The second option gives you a vertical diff, which is usually more readable