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[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

[1] http://meldmerge.org/

- Gilboa