Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:13:45 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.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: <20021014041345.GB90575@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <3DAA29D1.8050207@potentialtech.com>
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On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:20:01PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> 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.
Or maybe a full line of equal symbols ("=")... Oh, wait, it does that
already.
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