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I really like the vimdiff / vim -d , it's awesome.

But I need to see the vimdiff result without enter in the interactive mode.

Show the result colored , scrolling all differences and exit. Behave like a diff -y, side-by-side, but with the benefits of the colored and diff configuration from vim.

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  • What are you actually trying to accomplish that Vim's interactive mode is blocking?
    – 8bittree
    Jul 3, 2019 at 19:02
  • @8bittree , not sure what you mean with blocking,the idea is just scroll the diff result and back to the prompt, just like diffcommand but with vim output format.
    – ceinmart
    Jul 3, 2019 at 23:45
  • I mean why are you trying to avoid entering interactive mode? Usually the reason to avoid interactive mode is to do something with a pipeline, but you also want color which has a tendency to make pipeline processing very difficult.
    – 8bittree
    Jul 5, 2019 at 17:20
  • If you just want coloring, there are several syntax highlighting pagers
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Nov 30, 2019 at 21:55

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Before saving a file, I frequently verify changes before saving using:

:w !diff - % (diff <memory copy> <original file>

Quickly see changes in a simple diff style without changing the file.

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  • Welcome to Vi and Vim! This doesn't appear to help answer the question of non-interactive vimdiff
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Mar 30, 2020 at 14:13
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If you don't mind having the differences above each other as opposed to side-by-side, you can try this:

git diff --no-index FILE1 FILE2
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  • Thank you @Kostas, but the great advantage of the vimdiff is the side-by-side + colored diffs. Is exactly what I want to keep.
    – ceinmart
    Jul 3, 2019 at 18:38

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