Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia

Matter of opinion. I value learning from first principles. From that point of view: merging graphical tools are crutches if you don't have the foggiest idea of what is actually going on underneath. If you arrived at a later stage of the computer OS evolution game, graphical tools are what you know and that's the hammer you use to hit all nails. My hammer is vi, btw. Not vim; plain, old fashioned vi.

There's absolutely no part of the merging process `vimdiff` is hiding from you. You're enamoured with doing tedious, repetitive work but most of us would rather invest a few minutes in learning a more powerful tool or writing a bit of code than wasting our time.