When comparing vimdiff vs DeltaWalker, the Slant community recommends vimdiff for most people. In the question“What are the best folder/file compare/diff tools for either OSX, Linux or Windows?” vimdiff is ranked 4th while DeltaWalker is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose vimdiff is:
It's practically vim, this means that the whole interface is mouse-free, this increases development speed significantly since you are only using the keyboard.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Mouse-free interface
It's practically vim, this means that the whole interface is mouse-free, this increases development speed significantly since you are only using the keyboard.
Pro Lightweight
Since it's inside vim, it's very lightweight and fast. It fires up quickly and it does all operations painlessly.
Pro Helpful to people who work a lot inside the terminal
Using command-line tools (vim/git) keep you stick in the terminal.
Pro Folder and file filtering
Easy to use rules for including or excluding folders and files from your folder comparisons.
Pro Cross platform
Works on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pro Image comparison
2 & 3-way image comparisons with zooming & panning are available.
Pro 3-Way Text Merge
Pro Can compare remote directories
Can connect to remote folders via FTP, SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, WebDAVS, Dropbox, and Google Drive.
Cons
Con Not for people who are not used to vim
Since this is basically a vim feature, it's clear that people who aren't used to vim and it's keyboard-based interface would find it very hard to work with vimdiff.
Con Very slow
Folder comparisons can take an extremely long time to load compared to other diff tools.
Con Can't save sessions
