> > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > LP's patches come with tabs expanded to spaces, a trailing blank on > > each line and one leading blank removed. It would be nice if they > > were simpler to apply, but since his changes are generally good, I > > do take the time to clean the diff's up and apply them. (I do this > > by tweaking the filenames to match, using diffstat and "patch -l > > --dry-run" to see when I've got those consistent, and then diff'ing > > the new/original files to iron out the whitespace). > > so "patch -l" doesn't work here? the man page says it would match > any sequence of white space to any sequence of said ...
It will apply the changes - but it doesn't guess that well about filenames that are transformed to MS-DOS format. That's probably what BL was talking about. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
