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Re: diff-mode
From: |
Elena |
Subject: |
Re: diff-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:35:14 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
On Dec 14, 2:57 pm, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I do not doubt it. They just can't understand such issues however.
> > It's not their faults. They are geeks, just like me and - I think -
> > you. If we were them, we couldn't do any better.
>
> > Newbies flock to other editors because newbies find such editors
> > easier to use. Geeks know such editors just seem easier, or are
> > easier just in the short run, and shrug their shoulders.
>
> I don't think it should look easy for newbies, but it surely look nice
> and not too complex for already skilled programmers, that are maybe used
> to vim or something like that.
>
> It is much more powerful than all the others from my experience, but in
> the first few months is really hard to get through and be really
> productive with it...
>
>
>
> > I don't doubt it. However, as many things Emacs, its interface seems
> > foreign. I couldn't find a way to compare directories and have a
> > summary of changed files, from which navigate to such files. If
> > someone could post a video about how to accomplish such a task with
> > Emacs...
>
> Well I'm not an expert but that seemed rather easy,
> ediff-directories is not what you want?
> It gives you a summary and then you can do many things from there...
Thank you for the tip. However, ediff-directories requires you to
navigate directories looking for differences. OTOH, WinMerge does
that automatically and shows you a colorized summary, from wich is
very easy to navigate from and to single files. Here is a screenshot:
http://winmerge.org/about/screenshots/foldercmp.png
Way quicker.
>
> Anyway the error I get when in my configuration I try to kill the ediff
> session is
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Quit this Ediff session & show containing session group? (y or n)
> ediff-cleanup-mess: Attempt to delete minibuffer or sole ordinary window
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I'm not experiencing this.
- Re: diff-mode, (continued)
- Re: diff-mode, Leo, 2010/12/15
- Re: diff-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/14
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- Re: diff-mode, Elena, 2010/12/14
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- Re: diff-mode, Elena, 2010/12/14
- Re: diff-mode, Andrea Crotti, 2010/12/14
- RE: diff-mode, Drew Adams, 2010/12/14
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- Re: diff-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/14
- Re: diff-mode, Andrea Crotti, 2010/12/14
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- Re: diff-mode, Elena, 2010/12/14
- Re: diff-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/14
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- Re: diff-mode, Elena, 2010/12/14
- Re: diff-mode, Richard Riley, 2010/12/15
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- Re: diff-mode, José A . Romero L ., 2010/12/15
- Re: diff-mode, Elena, 2010/12/15
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