Re: suggestion for /usr/src/UPDATING

From: Charles Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:20:21 -0400
On Aug 31, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
>> OK.  Submitted as gnu/71210, diffs to the code are at:
>>
>> http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/sdiff.diff
>>
>> ...since the PR may have space-stuffed tabs.
>
> The environment variable seems like a good idea.  Changing the default
> is a very bad one.  My finger memory is just fine with sdiff and a
> change would suck.

While I agree that preserving reasonable defaults should be done, there 
seems to be serious disagreement as to whether the current defaults 
actually do make sense.  :-)

I am content to let any interested committer make that decision, but I 
ask that  whoever first go through a trial mergemaster session using 
'1' & '2' as the keys.  'q' and 'e' are right there, and I found the 
improvement compared to using 'l' & 'r' immediately obvious and more 
intuitive.

Your mileage may vary.

-- 
-Chuck
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 18:20:47 UTC

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