spotdiff.vim
A range and area selectable diffthis to compare partially (by rickhowe)
vim-diff-enhanced
Better Diff options for Vim (by chrisbra)
| spotdiff.vim | vim-diff-enhanced | |
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| 1 | 3 | |
| 39 | 359 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | about 4 years ago | |
| Vim Script | Vim Script | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
spotdiff.vim
Posts with mentions or reviews of spotdiff.vim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-05.
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An improved diff mode for VIM
As you pointed, vim does not allows to compare lines partially. I have posted https://github.com/rickhowe/spotdiff.vim, which allows to specify the line range to compare.
vim-diff-enhanced
Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-diff-enhanced.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-22.
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new and improved diff mode, working
Are you aware of things like vim-diff-enhanced and similar; how does this compare to that?
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An improved diff mode for VIM
In your original post, y-c-c mentioned that git diff --word-diff does what you want. Did you experiment with using git to provide diffs like vim-diff-enhanced does?
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What plugins do you predict will be integrated and shipped with Vim?
I see. I had assumed that including popular plugins or functionalities was part of the usual development workflow. Like netrw or Christian Brabandt enhanced diff functionality. But I guess it is less usual than I thought.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing spotdiff.vim and vim-diff-enhanced you can also consider the following projects:
linediff.vim - A vim plugin to perform diffs on blocks of code
gitsigns.nvim - Git integration for buffers
diffchar.vim - Highlight the exact differences, based on characters and words
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
diffconflicts - A better Vimdiff Git mergetool
blockwisediff.vim - A block-oriented diff to compare selected lines virtually