Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

David Dalrymple schrieb:
>> > There you don't have to ask for
>> > permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want.
>>
>> A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least;
>> basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of front-end to diff).
> 
> To throw my two cents in here, I'd like etc-update to use vimdiff,

Then configure etc-update to use vimdiff. See /etc/etc-update.conf

> which is another front-end to diff, and much more intuitive to me.
> However, doing so would probably enrage emacs users, who, presumably,
> have a front-end to diff from emacs as well; so maybe an option for
> vimdiff or emacs-diff -- I bet either would be better than the current
> script.

No, it would NOT be *BETTER*. One of the nice things of the current
default setup is, that it is rather basic.

Alexander Skwar
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