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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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