When Unix Stops Being Fun

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:49:23PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> 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-"?

Probably.  Actually, frobbing the variable 'make-backup-files' would
do the business, certainly for the sort of application where you're
just editing a temporary file.  But as I no longer have that problem,
I'll leave further investigation to others.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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