On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:48:49 -0700
mpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem with 'diff -Naur dir.orig dir' is that extra work is
> required because:
> (a) it requires two directories and
> (b) it reports the backup (*~) files that emacs leaves behind as changes.
There's a clever option for Vim so you can clone a directory with links (hard
or symbolic), and whenever you save some file, it automatically "breaks" the
link. It doesn't solve your problem, only alleviate the storage requirements.
IIRC:
set backup
set backupcopy=yes,breakhardlink
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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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