I have configured svn to open differences using the text (i.e. not graphical) version of vim. Whenever I'm satisfied viewing the changes of the current file I quit vim -- with :qa -- and the next file is opened up. How can I abort this process without the need to view all of the files? (I don't know if this is something that must be done within vim or svn.)
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I don't know how exactly the invocation of Vim from svn works (and you didn't list your configuration so that I could quickly try this), but you could try quitting Vim with :cquit, which sends an error code back to the invoking process. Maybe that causes svn to abort the loop.
answered Dec 5, 2012 at 8:31
p4 diffcommand. I first tried Ingo's:cquitsuggestion, but p4 ignored the return status and continued with the next file. I then executed:!ps -fHto find the PID of Vim's parent process, p4, and then executed:! kill pid, wherepidis the PID found fromps. That killed p4, but it also left my terminal in an odd state. I had to executeresetat the shell prompt to restore it. As I said, not a good solution, but maybe it will stimulate some others' thoughts.