Deprecated

Vim 8.1.0360 introduce algorithm:{text} to diffopt and natively supports the following algorithms

• myers (default)
• minimal
• patience
• histogram

So that if you use this plugin to use one of the above algorithm, the plugin is no longer required and use setting like below:

set diffopt& diffopt+=algorithm:histogram,indent-heuristic

See :help diffopt for detail.

vim-unified-diff

This plugin is a plugin to use an external diff program which only support unified-diff in vimdiff.

In default, it uses git diff --histogram so that installing this plugin automatically improve your vimdiff quality.

For example

It will be turn into

by this plugin.

Inspired by http://qiita.com/takaakikasai/items/3d4f8a4867364a46dfa3 and written in pure vimscript.

INSTALL

NeoBundle 'lambdalisue/vim-unified-diff'
Plug 'lambdalisue/vim-unified-diff'

USAGE

Once users install this plugin, it automatically configures diffexpr. To disable it, assign 0 to g:unified_diff_enabled variable.