I want to compare two files(say A
and B
) side by side(vertically) in in Vim. I open one of those two files(say A) and as per this answer in this site issue a Ctrl+w v . Now both the panels are showing contents of file A
. How can I see the contents of A in the left had side and B in the right hand side ? I am using Red Hat Linux if that matters .
2 Answers
You must switch panes in vim
and then open a new file.
Switch panes with CTRL+W+W.
Once the cursor is in the new pane, open a new file by entering the vim
command line and using the open file command.
:e /some/file/name
:e <filename>
vim
open already:vimdiff file1 file2
. If you don't actually needvimdiff
, thenvim -O file1 file2
.