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Ben Fritz  
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 More options Oct 9 2012, 11:53 am
From: Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 08:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Oct 9 2012 11:53 am
Subject: Re: How to "destructive vimdiff" ;) two files ?

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 8:10:29 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:

> You need to loop over each line and get the diff_hlID() for that position.

> Each line, where diff_hlID() returns zero you need to delete.

> Of course, you can do it in one step ;)

> exe ':g/'. join(map(filter(range(1,line('$')), '!diff_hlID(v:val, 0)'), '

> ''\%''.v:val."l"'), '\|'). '/d'

> But, this works only once, you can't do this for all buffers at the

> same time, since after you changed the first buffer the syntax highlighting

> for the other will be completely different and there will be no more

> items being in common at the following buffers.

But, you could next undo the (single) change in the first buffer, repeat the process on the second buffer, then redo the change in the first buffer.

 
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