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[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello
>
> i am writing code using vim. a college writes in eclipse.
> whenever the eclipse open my files, it changes the amount of spaces inside
> it, and also may split lines.
>
> i'm using vimdiff, and get  a lot of cahnges. even the iwhite option doesn't
> help as it does not ignore a single space, and no line changes.
>
> i looked a little bit and couldn't find a solution
>
> beyond compare handles it, but i preffer vi
>
> any idea ?
>

I do use vimdiff from time to time, but as a comparison tool, it is
somewhat feature incomplete.
I would suggest you give meld [1] a try.

IMHO its the best merging tool currently available (including built in
support for SVN/GIT/BZR/CVS/etc) - in many ways much better than many
proprietary solutions.
In your case, meld can be configured (via regex) to ignore white
spaces or any other complex expression.

- Gilboa