Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] mergetools: vimdiff: regression fix and reorg

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2022, 22:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1QrksABPqfsduJTTNx6H+Keb-6Qg3PEmJJChHZFofvAA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YvAGycJR8Yq3hxOh@zacax395.localdomain>

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 1:39 PM Fernando Ramos <greenfoo@u92.eu> wrote:

> On 22/08/07 10:39AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> > To me if I configure "BASE,MERGED" and I close the first window, I
> > should end up with the same view as "MERGED", but I don't, which is
> > why I fundamentally don't like this layout approach.
>
> This won't work. Not even after the fix. If you want to modify the layout (ex:
> by closing a window) vim won't automatically update the list of buffers to
> consider for the diff.

Of course it works:

    vim -d -c 'set hidden diffopt=internal' BASE MERGED

Close the first window and the diff colors remain.

vim doesn't need to update the list of buffers.

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Felipe Contreras