From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 17:38:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F8816A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:38:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B39E43D31 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:38:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i9AHcZpk054871 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:38:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i9AHcZxw054870; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:38:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:38:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Kai Grossjohann Message-ID: <20041010173835.GA54782@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Kai Grossjohann , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SUOF0GtieIMvvwua" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86u0t24iy4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:38:36 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:38:43 -0000 --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:49:23PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > Matthew Seaman 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 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBaXObiD657aJF7eIRAr8JAJ9GOtEssBVvQmkSLyQtczxFn58dYACdHQr/ D0tb9pBjrrk4/af10i0CGfE= =MPJi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--