On Thursday, September 13, 2012 14:20:49 Eric Kow wrote: > On 24 August 2012 22:51, Ben Franksen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think this prompt is used in > > > case the diff-command exits before the user is done (some graphical > > > diffs do so, I think). > > > > You mean programs that start the actual viewer as a background task (or > > send > > the file or directory names to an already running demon task) and then > > exit, > > so darcs thinks the user is done and deletes the temporary > > files/directories > > it created for the diff... yeah, that's a problem. I see. For the same > > reason you should not set DARCS_EDITOR to a GUI editor that just opens > > another window of an already running editor process and then exits. I > > actually made that mistake when I started working with darcs and kept > > wondering why my long comments didn't make it into the repo... > > Apologies for the silence on your overall perspective on the UI consistency > stuff. > I just wanted to confirm this. > > At some point, darcs grew a --no-pause-for-gui flag that you can use to > suppress > the behaviour.
Thanks, this is useful. > Messy universe :-/ Indeed, and I appreciate your efforts to stem the tide of entropy ;-) Cheers -- Ben Franksen () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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