Ignore white space in vimdiff

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created 2006 · complexity basic · author vagusri · version 5.7

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I had been searching for a way to ignore white spaces while using vimdiff. Unfortunately, vimdiff -h yields the generic Vim help. I finally found that including the following line in vimrc solves the problem.

set diffopt+=iwhite

From the command line:

vimdiff -c 'set diffopt+=iwhite' ...

References

• :help vimdiff
• :help 'diffopt'

Comments

Combining this with a note from the generic vim help, this can be done in .vimrc using

if &diff
    set diffopt+=iwhite
else
    " setup for non-diff mode
endif