Comparison and Differencing

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Comparison and Differencing

Commands that perform comparisons and differences:

Commands

compare-windows(2) Compare buffer windows, ignore whitespace
compare-windows-exact(3) Compare buffer windows, with whitespace
diff(3) Difference files or directories
diff-changes(3) Find the differences from a previous edit session
diff-lines(3) Highlight the differences between two lines
gdiff(3) Graphical file difference
rdiff(3) Recursively compare files or directories
xdiff(3) External graphical file difference

Variables

%diff-com(5) Diff command line
%gdiff-com(5) Gdiff command line
%xdiff-com(5) xdiff command line

Ref: Comparison and Differencing File: me.0 Date: 2026/03/05