Suppressing Vimdiff message

Question

I tried looking online and it seems that no one has a simple answer to it.

In my bash script, I use vimdiff for two files, but after I close the vimdiff it shows "2 files to edit" whenever the files differ. It seems like no one has the solution to this I was wondering if there was a short way in my bash script to suppress that message not through .vimrc edits.

If you found an answer that does use an edit to a vimrc you can pass it in on the command line using `--cmd`. — FDinoff, Apr 25 '14 at 23:41
what's the purpose to use vimdiff? There is an option in diff which displays files side by side. For example `diff -y file1 file2` — BMW, Apr 26 '14 at 01:21
Where does that "2 files to edit" message show? Back in the shell? In Vim before you exit? In Vim after you exit? — Ben, Apr 26 '14 at 04:10
@BMW: Perhaps for syntax highlighting? Or for the ability to copy changes between files? — johnsyweb, Apr 27 '14 at 09:47
@Ben: It's emitted to the terminal on startup and is visible when Vim exits. — johnsyweb, Apr 27 '14 at 09:48

johnsyweb · Answer 1 · 2014-04-27T11:52:27.547

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Looking at Vim 7.4.265's startup code, there is no way to suppress the %d files to edit message being emitted to the terminal (and hence being visible after exit) when invoked as vimdiff.

I guess you could always submit a patch to suppress this message with a switch.

Update

I knew there would be a way to get the result you desired (without writing C)!

Invoke Vim as vim with one file argument. And then call :diffsplit on the second file. But from the command-line, via -c:

vim /path/to/first_file -c'diffsplit /path/to/second_file'

edited Apr 27 '14 at 11:52

answered Apr 26 '14 at 06:14

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The biggest problem I had using the -c flag is that I couldn't get it to properly handle a path with a space for the second file. I tried escaping it in every way that I could think of, and couldn't get it to work. I've added a different solution which gets around this problem by using the -d flag and sending output to /dev/null. – DevDaddyNick Apr 20 '17 at 16:42

Suppressing Vimdiff message

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