Re: sdiff UI enhancement

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Chuck Swiger <address@hidden> writes:
> >   http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/sdiff2.diff
>
> The "1" and "2" part of that patch is now installed, albeit done in a
> different way.

Thanks for adopting this, Paul.

> Can you please remind me what the deal is with the external editor?

Of course.  At least with diff-2.7 or thereabouts, invoking the  
external editor via "e l" or "e r" would always fail and return the  
warning from this line of diff code:

   fatal ("Subsidiary editor failed");

...it appeared that perhaps the wstatus variable wasn't getting set  
from calling waitpid()?  I'll see whether I can reproduce it with  
diff-2.8.x-- perhaps it has been fixed since...

--
-Chuck