Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:49:23 +0200 From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun Message-ID: <86u0t24iy4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <20041002225028.05205e9a.metaridley@mchsi.com> <200410042154.52088.dgw@liwest.at> <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20041005101740.GD9642@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > 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). Does it help to frob backup-by-copying and/or some of the other variables starting "backup-by-copying-"? Kai
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