[PLUGIN] Lessdiff -> colourised diffs via less

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:24 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> So it looks like if we want autodetect, you can have the first line
> start with '--- ' and the second start with '+++ ', or the first with
> '*** ', and the second '--- '
> Or you can have the first line start with:
> 'diff'
> 'Only in '
> '# It was generated by makepatch '
> And a few others.
> 
> So back when we used to use "*** modified foo" instead of "=== modified
> foo" vim did automatically detect the filetype.
> I believe the reason we switched was because *** was used by context diffs.

Yes. Thats a bug in vim, it should be willing to ignore a little prelude
with diffs - CVS et all all issue preludes and patch happily deals.


Rob
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