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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.
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Brian May, 2004/01/11