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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:20:01 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>, "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>, Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>, Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>, chris scott <c.scott@uk.tiscali.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels
Message-ID:  <3DAA29D1.8050207@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20021013172810.A19177@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk>	<20021013130138.G523-100000@femme.sapphite.org>	<20021013214642.GB90169@blossom.cjclark.org>	<200210132154.g9DLsUmc057065@apollo.backplane.com> <15786.1827.305324.786368@ice.wonderworks.com> <200210140205.g9E25bCW058389@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :aMatthew Dillon writes:
> : >     I would like mergemaster a whole lot more if:
> :...
> : > 
> : >     (2) It cleared the window before each presentation, so I don't
> : > 	have to search around the window to find the filename and/or
> : > 	diff that it's currently asking me to do something about
> : > 	(this is especially annoying for small files).
> : > 
> : >     (3) It didn't try to display the whole diff initially, causing
> : > 	a pipe-to-(less or more) that I then have to quit out of 
> : > 	before I can tell it to install / delete.  Blech.
> :
> :I agree with (1), but (2) and (3) should be options.  If you've
> :keeping track of output in an xterm scroll buffer clearing the
> :screen will lose some output.  And sometimes an overview of the
> :changes is good so you can tell whether it's worth going through
> :them interactively or just accepting/denying them all.
> 
>     (3) is easy, the 'v'iew diff again option would simply display
>     the whole thing.  Only the initial view would be truncated.
> 
>     (2) A solution would be to generate a screen's worth of empty lines
>     before clearing the screen so everything that was there before stays
>     in the scrollbackbuffer.

Or possibly some obvious seperator, such as a full line of asterisks, or
something similarly obvious.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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