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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request


From: Aaron Bentley
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request
Date: 13 Jan 2004 18:33:37 -0500

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:51, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason McCarty <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Jason> Brian May wrote:
>     >> IMHO, these .*.swp files need to be classified ass either junk
>     >> files or backup files. Otherwise you can't commit if a file is
>     >> opened in vim, because vim creates these temp files when it
>     >> opens the file, and deletes them when closing the file.
> 
>     Jason> I believe the intention is to prevent accidentally
>     Jason> committing a file which has unsaved changes in
>     Jason> it. Personally, this is worth the inconvenience of having
>     Jason> to exit vim when I want to commit.
> 
> It depends on how you use vim.
> 
> I personally have any number of files open at any time (this enables
> copying between files without using X cut & paste), and exiting
> everything just so I can do a commit of one file is a real pain.
> 
> However, it looks like the issue is already fixed in
> address@hidden/tla--devo--1.2--patch-55
This only affects the libarch directory of the tla--devo--1.2 tree. 
It's not a change to the default naming conventions in invent.c.  I just
did it for my own tree, and was actually surprised to see it merged.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.





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