On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:09:29AM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote:
> >> The existing code currently uses "-L" switches to pass labels into the
> >> external diff3 and external diff tools. I don't think those labels have
> >> relative path information, but I doubt we really want them to.
> >
> > I see C-Mike Pilato made an improvement yesterday to put make the
> > temporary file names reflect the real file name, so hopefully that's
> > made the situation better. I haven't looked at it yet.
>
> I just tested this, and I think the change I made yesterday *does* help
> this. I tested the (l)aunch option just now with Emacs as the "tool", and I
> got a filename like <name-of-file>.tmp in Emacs. Is that the kind of
> improvement folks were looking for?
Yep, this is good. Using tmp.<name-of-file> would maybe even better, just in
case some editor evaluates the file suffix to enable syntax highlighting, ...
Jens
Received on 2009-01-13 17:18:06 CET