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vim with wdiff?

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Mar 15, 2026363 views
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Problem

I am merging text (not code) using vim. Unfortunately, the paragraph formatting is different between the two text. I know if I used it would only show the differences that I am interested in, but to edit the text, I'd like to use diff-mode in vim. A quick search in the vim help and vim wiki gives m…

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Fix for: vim with wdiff?

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This morning I found an awesome Gist that does what you ask (w/o a wdiff dependency no less!). It could use a little polish in that you must specify the for each window you want to compare, but does basically what you want.

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