From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 13 19:12:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF8E37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438B443EE5 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:12:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g9E2BwW29216; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:11:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3DAA29D1.8050207@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:20:01 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Kyle Jones , "Crist J. Clark" , Trish Lynch , Adrian Wontroba , chris scott , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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