Right now it doesn't really matter which target is used, vim always goes for 'MERGED' since that's the last buffer. As the documentation of bufdo says: The last buffer (or where an error occurred) becomes the current buffer. So we have to switch to the desired buffer *after* running the bufdo command. And we can't simply do `| 1b` because that will be considered part of the bufdo command, so we have to run it inside an execute command. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> --- mergetools/vimdiff | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mergetools/vimdiff b/mergetools/vimdiff index cdef1dcae3..34373ad92c 100644 --- a/mergetools/vimdiff +++ b/mergetools/vimdiff @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ gen_cmd () { if ! echo "$LAYOUT" | grep ",\|/" >/dev/null then buf=$(get_buf "$LAYOUT") - FINAL_CMD="-c \"set hidden diffopt-=hiddenoff | ${buf}b | silent bufdo diffthis\"" + FINAL_CMD="-c \"set hidden diffopt-=hiddenoff | silent execute 'bufdo diffthis' | ${buf}b\"" return fi @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ run_unit_tests () { EXPECTED_CMD_01="-c \"echo | leftabove split | leftabove vertical split | 1b | wincmd l | leftabove vertical split | 2b | wincmd l | 3b | wincmd j | 4b | tabdo windo diffthis\" -c \"tabfirst\"" EXPECTED_CMD_02="-c \"echo | leftabove vertical split | 1b | wincmd l | 3b | tabdo windo diffthis\" -c \"tabfirst\"" EXPECTED_CMD_03="-c \"echo | leftabove vertical split | 1b | wincmd l | leftabove vertical split | 4b | wincmd l | 3b | tabdo windo diffthis\" -c \"tabfirst\"" - EXPECTED_CMD_04="-c \"set hidden diffopt-=hiddenoff | 4b | silent bufdo diffthis\"" + EXPECTED_CMD_04="-c \"set hidden diffopt-=hiddenoff | silent execute 'bufdo diffthis' | 4b\"" EXPECTED_CMD_05="-c \"echo | leftabove split | 1b | wincmd j | leftabove split | 4b | wincmd j | 3b | tabdo windo diffthis\" -c \"tabfirst\"" EXPECTED_CMD_06="-c \"echo | leftabove vertical split | leftabove split | 1b | wincmd j | 3b | wincmd l | 4b | tabdo windo diffthis\" -c \"tabfirst\"" EXPECTED_CMD_07="-c \"echo | leftabove vertical split | 4b | wincmd l | leftabove split | 1b | wincmd j | 3b | tabdo windo diffthis\" -c \"tabfirst\"" -- 2.37.1.378.g3f95da6bac