Re: diff-mode

[Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

On Dec 14, 2:57 pm, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I do not doubt it.  They just can't understand such issues however.
> > It's not their faults.  They are geeks, just like me and - I think -
> > you.  If we were them, we couldn't do any better.
>
> > Newbies flock to other editors because newbies find such editors
> > easier to use.  Geeks know such editors just seem easier, or are
> > easier just in the short run, and shrug their shoulders.
>
> I don't think it should look easy for newbies, but it surely look nice
> and not too complex for already skilled programmers, that are maybe used
> to vim or something like that.
>
> It is much more powerful than all the others from my experience, but in
> the first few months is really hard to get through and be really
> productive with it...
>
>
>
> > I don't doubt it.  However, as many things Emacs, its interface seems
> > foreign.  I couldn't find a way to compare directories and have a
> > summary of changed files, from which navigate to such files.  If
> > someone could post a video about how to accomplish such a task with
> > Emacs...
>
> Well I'm not an expert but that seemed rather easy,
> ediff-directories is not what you want?
> It gives you a summary and then you can do many things from there...

Thank you for the tip.  However, ediff-directories requires you to
navigate directories looking for differences.  OTOH, WinMerge does
that automatically and shows you a colorized summary, from wich is
very easy to navigate from and to single files.  Here is a screenshot:
http://winmerge.org/about/screenshots/foldercmp.png

Way quicker.

>
> Anyway the error I get when in my configuration I try to kill the ediff
> session is
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Quit this Ediff session & show containing session group? (y or n)
> ediff-cleanup-mess: Attempt to delete minibuffer or sole ordinary window
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'm not experiencing this.