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From: gzimak@yahoo.com (Gary Z)
Subject: Trying to merge two files with emacs... need help!
Date: 11 May 2004 20:25:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0141914.0405111925.7f5756e1@posting.google.com> (raw)

I'm new to emacs and I'm trying to use it to merge two files into one.
Some time ago, I watched a co-worker step through a file and
selectively merge changes into it from another file. Unfortunately, I
don't recall how he did it! Currently, I'm opening a file with emacs,
selecting diff (2 files) from the menu, specifying the current file
and the file I want to merge into the current file. I hit the space
bar and the first difference is displayed. I am able to accept what is
in buffer a or buffer b, but I can't figure out how to combine both of
them. The buffers look something like this:

Buffer A
here is the first line.
here is the second line.

Buffer B
here is the third line.
here is the fourth line.

The result that I want is:

here is the first line.
here is the second line.
here is the third line.
here is the fourth line.

Any ideas on how I can do this? I guess it's tricky because emacs
views it as a conflict, but I want to combine everything, not choose
one or the other.

Thanks,
Gary

             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-12  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-12  3:25 Gary Z [this message]
2004-05-12  6:00 ` Trying to merge two files with emacs... need help! Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.4725.1084338189.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-12 11:50   ` Gary Z
2004-05-12 20:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-12 20:44     ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-05-12 12:21 ` Kevin Dziulko

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