On AD 2006 September 09 Saturday 11:06:21 PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > In /etc/etc-update.conf, there's the "using_editor=" (with 0 and 1, > for false and true) setting. > > What's that supposed to mean? What does it do? When should > it be set to 1 (true) and when to 0? What's an editor? Or, > more directly, I'd like to use "meld" as the diff_command > tool - do I need to set using_editor=1 or =0?
>From /usr/sbin/etc-update, which is a symlink to /usr/lib/portage/bin/etc-update, the only reference to 'using_editor' is on line 483. Here is some context: function do_cfg() { ... showdiffcmd=$(echo "${diff_command}" | sed -e "s:%file1:${ofile}:" -e "s:%file2:${file}:") if [ "${using_editor}" == 0 ]; then ( echo "Showing differences between ${ofile} and ${file}" ${showdiffcmd} ) | ${pager} else echo "Beginning of differences between ${ofile} and ${file}" ${showdiffcmd} echo "End of differences between ${ofile} and ${file}" fi Basically it looks like if you have a pager set then you're 'using an editor' otherwise it doesn't expect a pager. Seems like a redundant config to me. Justin -- You have 1 Moderator Point! Use it or lose it! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list