From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diff-mode Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:57:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6174A3FCFD074EF5A396A7D095DEB814@us.oracle.com> <886669ef-277b-4056-97e0-4580e90ce614@k25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <79a18560-1385-439d-ad0b-ec386a352d4f@q8g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292338722 28318 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2010 14:58:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:58:42 +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 15:58:35 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 1PSWKo-0004X5-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:58:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSWKo-00050q-3S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:58:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34503 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSWKQ-00050P-Mk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSWKO-000509-Cq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:58:10 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSWKO-0004zJ-3K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSWKH-0004Gb-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:58:01 +0100 Original-Received: from ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.108.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:58:01 +0100 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:58:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ABN3CkGCSTfE0r9lCAwBvdGi0k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:77493 Archived-At: Elena 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... 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---