Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just
"Replace original with update".
I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help
either.
Any suggestions?
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Rick Lapp wrote:
Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just
"Replace original with update".
I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help
either.
Any suggestions?
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man dispatch-conf
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I cannot understand it either. It says things like left/right but
shows things top/bottom. I never know what it's doing so I quit, save
files, let it do the replacement and then compare the files again to
put my edits back in. Worse I jsut don't do the update. My cups
configuration is waiting for a
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:10, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> I have tried dispatch-conf. I don't really remember how it went other
> than I had trouble there too so I'm still using etc-update in my
> 'very, very careful' mode...
I use dispatch-conf since I got introduced to it. It's has Colordiffs
and it
050105 Rick Lapp wrote:
> Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult
> to do more than just "Replace original with update".
> I find the interactive menu not friendly at all.
> man etc-update is of no help either.
> Any suggestions?
you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't y
No, tell me more about Gvim?
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 050105 Rick Lapp wrote:
> > Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult
> > to do more than just "Replace original with update".
> > I find the interactive menu not friendly at all.
> > man et
050105 Rick Lapp wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 050105 Rick Lapp wrote:
>>> Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult
>>> to do more than just "Replace original with update".
>>> I find the interactive menu not friendly at all.
>>> man etc-u
> >>> Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult
> >>> to do more than just "Replace original with update".
> >>> I find the interactive menu not friendly at all.
> >>> man etc-update is of no help either.
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >> you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't you
Mark Knecht wrote:
I cannot understand it either. It says things like left/right but
shows things top/bottom.
There's a (vertical) line separating the two diff outputs. One is on the
left (the original) and one is on the right (the proposed changes).
So left/right refers to, do you want to use t
I use dispatch-conf since I got introduced to it. It's has Colordiffs
and it was RCS for file-revs.
me tto but also etc-update has colordiff:
# vim-users: you CAN use vimdiff for diff_command. (see NOTE_1)
diff_command="colordiff -uN %file1 %file2"
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On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:34, Holly Bostick wrote:
> On the other
> hand, I can't understand how to use dispatch-conf at all.
Why would that be the case? The way you described etc-update, to me it
seems the same as dispatch-conf.
Admitedly there are minor differences, but both of it does the sam
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:34, Holly Bostick wrote:
On the other
hand, I can't understand how to use dispatch-conf at all.
Why would that be the case? The way you described etc-update, to me it
seems the same as dispatch-conf.
I know dispatch-conf does the same thing, but it does
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:29:44 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> I know dispatch-conf does the same thing, but it does it a different
> way, and I don't understand the output (it displays diffs, for example,
> in such a way that I can't recognize which is which, and I don't easily
> see the commands
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> Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do
> more than just
> "Replace original with update".
>
> I find the interactive m
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