On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia > > Matter of opinion. I value learning from first principles. From that point > of view: merging graphical tools are crutches if you don't have the > foggiest idea of what is actually going on underneath. If you arrived at a > later stage of the computer OS evolution game, graphical tools are what you > know and that's the hammer you use to hit all nails. My hammer is vi, btw. > Not vim; plain, old fashioned vi. > There's absolutely no part of the merging process `vimdiff` is hiding from you. You're enamoured with doing tedious, repetitive work but most of us would rather invest a few minutes in learning a more powerful tool or writing a bit of code than wasting our time.