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Add to SafariWhen comparing vimdiff vs difftastic, the Slant community recommends vimdiff for most people. In the question“What are the best diff tools for Git?” vimdiff is ranked 7th while difftastic is ranked 18th. 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.
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Question Ranking
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 Can diff directories
Pro Syntactic diffing
Down to a character.
Pro Cross platform
Linux, Mac and Windows.
Pro Supports over 20 languages (and some other syntax)
c, c++, c#, java, python, go, javascript, json, rust, sql, html, css and more.
See here.
Pro Language autodetection
Pro Has a manual
Pro Supports other version control tools
Like Mercurial.
Pro Works with Magit
Pro MIT license
Pro Has syntax highlighting
That can be turned off.
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 Can be confused with syntax at times
