Bug#846993: vim-gtk3: vimdiff does not compare last lines if editing changes lines

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello James,
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 08:22:34PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > The last two lines are now identical (they only contain the word
> > »rows«), but vimdiff (in the current version) does not show this. 
> > 
> > (This is an artifical case, ordinarily the last line contains many
> > words, so it is not easy to spot if they are actually identical). 
> > 
> > To really see the a proper diff, you need to save the changed file,
> > quit vim and rerun the vimdiff command from above.
> 
> Can't you just run ":diffupdate" instead?

Thanks for the hint, yes this works.

However, with older versions of vim this is not necessary, so the
regression exists.

Greetings

        Helge
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