Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:38:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun Message-ID: <20041010173835.GA54782@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <86u0t24iy4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <20041002225028.05205e9a.metaridley@mchsi.com> <200410042154.52088.dgw@liwest.at> <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20041005101740.GD9642@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <86u0t24iy4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net>
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:49:23PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
>=20
> > Ah -- yes. That brings back memories. Trying to use sdiff(1) on
> > Solaris. Where you want your terminal to be as wide as possible so
> > you can display the files you're diffing side by side, but you can't
> > use emacs(1) as your $EDITOR because the way it shuffles around copies
> > of the files to keep a backup version confuses sdiff(1).
>=20
> Does it help to frob backup-by-copying and/or some of the other
> variables starting "backup-by-copying-"?
Probably. Actually, frobbing the variable 'make-backup-files' would
do the business, certainly for the sort of application where you're
just editing a temporary file. But as I no longer have that problem,
I'll leave further investigation to others.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
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