From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elena Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diff-mode Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:40:28 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <79a18560-1385-439d-ad0b-ec386a352d4f@q8g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <6174A3FCFD074EF5A396A7D095DEB814@us.oracle.com> <886669ef-277b-4056-97e0-4580e90ce614@k25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292337635 22511 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2010 14:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 14 15:40:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSW3K-0003M8-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSW3K-0005LZ-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q8g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.96.190.244 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1292334028 11056 127.0.0.1 (14 Dec 2010 13:40:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q8g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.96.190.244; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183246 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77491 Archived-At: On Dec 14, 10:11=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > That's not true. =A0Usability is quite high on the developers' agenda. > If you report usability problems as bugs, they will be handled. 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 applaud your effort to use Emacs for diffs. =A0I gave up very quickly > > and to this day I still stick to WinMerge. > > Feel free to use LoseMerge, Ediff beats it any time with both hands > behind its back. =A0You gave up too quickly. 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...