How To Install Vimdiff On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

How To Install Vimdiff On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

vimdiff

Open up to four files in vim and show the differences between them.
See `vim` documentation for working with files and navigating within a window.

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Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers
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Website: https://www.vim.org/
Section: editors

Install vimdiff

  • Debian apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add vim Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S vim Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install vim-enhanced-2 Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install vim Click to copy
  • macOS brew install vim Click to copy

Open up to four files in vim and show the differences between them. See `vim` documentation for working with files and navigating within a window.

How to use vimdiff?

Below are few example commands for vimdiff that you can use in the terminal.

Open two files and show the differences (up to four files can be compared):
vimdiff file1 file2Click to copyOpen two files using a horizontal window split instead of the default vertical split:
vimdiff -o file1 file2Click to copyMove the cursor to the window on the left|right|up|down:
Ctrl + w h|l|k|jClick to copy
To install the latest version of vimdiff in your favorite operating system just copy the vimdiff installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of vimdiff 2024 package in your OS.