Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 08:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to "destructive vimdiff" ;) two files ?
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On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 8:10:29 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:
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> You need to loop over each line and get the diff_hlID() for that position.
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> Each line, where diff_hlID() returns zero you need to delete.
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> 
> 
> Of course, you can do it in one step ;)
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> 
> 
> exe ':g/'. join(map(filter(range(1,line('$')), '!diff_hlID(v:val, 0)'), '
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> ''\%''.v:val."l"'), '\|'). '/d'
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> 
> 
> But, this works only once, you can't do this for all buffers at the
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> same time, since after you changed the first buffer the syntax highlighting
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> for the other will be completely different and there will be no more
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> 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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