When Unix Stops Being Fun
Kai Grossjohann
kai at emptydomain.de
Sun Oct 10 09:50:19 PDT 2004
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at 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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