FS#40758 - vim -d is a better choice for pacdiff than vimdiff

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by invivo (invivo) - Sunday, 08 June 2014, 14:27 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 04 August 2014, 04:58 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Scripts & Tools
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.1.2
Due in Version 4.2.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

In line 24, the default DIFFPROG is vimdiff. I propose a more portable vim -d, as it is more portable and more likely to work for a wider usage.


Steps to Reproduce:

My installed version of Vim does not recognize vimdiff, but works perfectly with vim -d. I changed the DIFFPROG variable to vim -d to allow intended behavior.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 04 August 2014, 04:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  git commit 79548e0d
Comment by Daniel (weirddan455) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 16:31 GMT
Not trying to say one way or the other if this should be changed but I'd just like to point out that on the vim package in [extra] /usr/bin/vimdiff is just a plain old symlink to /usr/bin/vim. I tested manually deleting it and recreating it with "ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vimdiff" and it works as expected. Try creating a symlink on your vim and see if it doesn't work.

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