Save vimdiff output?

Question

I google\'d this multiple times in the past but I\'ve never found an answer. Is there a way to save vimdiff\'s output (preferably while maintaining colors, highlights, etc.)? I\

Answer 1

There are at least two options for saving vim colouring: it is :TOhtml distributed with vim itself and more advanced my format.vim plugin. Advantages of my plugin over :TOhtml are described on the plugin page. Command to format vimdiff to html:

:Format diffformat

Answer 2

diff -u file1 file2 > outputfile

Answer 3

To compare two files and write out the result to a third file "HTML based". Open a terminal and run this command:

vimdiff  file1.txt file2.txt -c TOhtml -c 'w! diff.html' -c 'qa!'

Answer 4

Vim can export to HTML, see:

:help :TOhtml

Answer 5

You'll get similar output with the next command:

sdiff file1 file2 | colordiff