Dear Maintainer,

vimdiff's default colored highlighting often hides the actual text diff
between to files, making it harder to see the differences than when
using the simple diff program.

In addition, the man page for vimdiff does not say anything about how to
turn off this highlighting.
--- real paths of main Vim binaries ---
/usr/bin/vi is /usr/bin/vim.basic
/usr/bin/vim is /usr/bin/vim.basic

There is an upstream fix for this here:

https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/20711

Hello,

Bug #1140942 in vim reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/vim-team/vim/-/commit/ab2ad00bbc1e49032c91f62dc2ee185bdc85ecca
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Start changelog for v9.2.0858

Closes: #1140942
Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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(this message was generated automatically)
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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1140942

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
vim, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1140942@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> (supplier of updated vim package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:11:18 -0400
Source: vim
Architecture: source
Version: 2:9.2.0858-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers <team+vim@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Closes: 1140942
Changes:
 vim (2:9.2.0858-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream tag
     - 9.2.0831: Adjust diff highlighting so it's more readable in terminals
       with < 256 colors (Closes: #1140942)
   * Add historical changelog entry for fix of bash array syntax highlighting,
     #977141, which was closed in 2:9.1.0199-1
   * Add historical changelog entry for fix of make syntax highlighting, when a
     string has a closing paren (#987060), which was fixed by 2:9.1.2103-1
   * salsa-ci: Remove obsolete DISABLE_REPROTEST: 1 setting
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